He hesitates, searching for words. "...this isn't a very safe place, especially not for children."

Especially not for pretty, precocious children with cat ears.

"But maybe if you were in your all-cat shape I could carry you somehow..." Roi makes a big kitten--Balthazar presumes that's a matter of mass being the same in either form--but a cute fuzzy pet is easier to explain, hide, and protect than a child.