"Mostly? I was using it to say 'heard and remembered,'" Arden said with a shrug. "I don't bite people, I don't even really joke about biting people--" that was Illyana but 'joke' might be stretching it a bit, it was more a threat, "--but on the off-chance either of those change in the future, I'm still not going to bite you because you've been very clear that you're not into that."

Honestly, considering this island could turn you into a gremlin or a vampire or make you think you were a giant fucking mosquito or whatever, 'strategic not-biting purposes' could cover a large swathe of scenarios.