[Quentin can't help it, he laughs.]

I guess that's a fair point. But... it makes sense in Faerie. Things work different in Faerie than they do in the human world. Spike's a rose goblin, and rose goblins are rosebushes, but they're also cute and animate.

[He holds said rose goblin out as a way of demonstration. See? Cute. Spike rattles its thorns and chirps.]

Technically it's Toby's pet, I think. But we all live in the same house.