Hmm... I don't really want to eat you, either. You're really nice! But that stuff in your arm seems maybe not-so-nice, so... sometimes these things just have to be done, you know? [ DO THEY??? ] Besides, I suppose, in the end, I won't force you to eat anything you don't want to. It's just you'll need to keep your strength up and regain some of the energy and nutrients you're bound to lose from it...

[ It's not like this is the first time he's done something like this. Maybe that would be concerning to say? People don't usually have very good reactions to hearing that, even if most people from Rhodes Island don't really do anything about it. He's gotten quite a few scrunched noses just from eating people, so... hm. He'll leave that part out, then. ]