Lyren couldn't help but smile when a small dog jumped onto the Guildmaster's head, then used him and everybody else standing there as springboards to get to Kai. He wasn't the biggest animal guy around. But who didn't think dogs were cute? Besides most animals were wary about him because of the dark aura. So when one did decide to approach him, he almost instantly fell in love. He really was a big softie deep down. You just had to dig deep to find it. And that wasn't a part of him that he liked people to find, so you had to earn his trust to even begin to dig.
Though the team he was on looked like a good one, he was a bit concerned that they would end up fighting each other and not the monsters. If that happened he wouldn't hesitate to lure the monsters away from the village. The people and buildings there were top priority on this job. At least in Lyren's eyes. He didn't care about his reputation that much, he had once been a member of a Dark Guild, you don't earn much a reputation past that. He was ready to get out of here already. Talking and strategies weren't really his thing. He preferred the shoot first, ask questions later method. His brain just didn't work like other people's did.