It simply seemed like the only responsible thing to do.

[Something like that, anyway - they can't even remember how they stumbled into this having a ghoul thing, but they certainly feel responsible now. It's like a Golden Retriever suddenly sat on your porch with soulful eyes, worming its way into your heart. ...While you have to play nice with the neighbourhood and can't hit the road when things are on fire.]

There are others who... it doesn't bear thinking. [Y'know. Would act like they would under normal circumstances.] Anyway, so to ...protect him from himself, really, it cannot be called anything else, it seemed the best to me to put down some rules in the regard, and I thought that you would be the perfect person for ...beginning to implement some ideas for how to keep him from overextending himself.

And thus I was wondering [they spread their hands] if you should like to join us for some adult teatime in this beautiful new year. Max would so love some time with you, but I should prefer the first playdate to be supervised so he gets the correct impression for future arrangements of such a nature, should they occur.