"Not all cacti are that ginormous," he points out, forgetting that she spent the past few years in America and has probably been up close and personal with the huge saguaro cactus they have over there. "Dinosaurs are always large, and while Agumon might not always be, he gets that way. When he has to."

Taichi used to delight in making his partner digivolve, now all it does is twist something sharply low in his gut. People got hurt last time, and he fears that one day, something is going to happen to Agumon that he can't recover from.

It's probably not the time or place to be asking her this, but he does so anyway.

"Do you think it's right that we make our Digimon fight all the time?"