[Sho running himself into ragged exhaustion by overestimating his capabilities as a human was a picture Belphegor was far more accustomed to. When Zodiac arrives in Goldenrod a couple of hours later, delivering a sacked-out reaper on his back, the middle sister is more than a little pleased with the picture.

Unfortunately, leaving him that way AND getting him to the room are not congruent to one another.]

You can set him down, Zodiac. [She says gently...which is, apparently, all the bird was waiting to hear as he turns his cloud-like wings into a sharp slant and leans, sliding the unconscious human from his back to the inn's lawn]