Bastien narrows his eyes back at Byerly — what combined with don't you dare — before giving them a slight roll in response to Benedict, who cannot hurt him with repetition and also has not even begun to experience what it would be like if he was nasty and throwing things in anyone's face.

"I am going to get ready," he says, restrained and dignified and dismissive, rising from his seat and tossing the paper onto a pile of others.

He does not toss Rat Red anywhere. She's coming upstairs with him.