[Of course he would long for protection. This was not the sort of thing that he would ever get to experience in his life. So he didn't think he'd beg for it. Not now, not ever. But Ifrit, perhaps he sensed that need and wanted to provide it. Then again...]

He was sort of like that when I found him. Taunting me, annoyed that I was using Shiva against him, things like that. But I know that Shiva doesn't, and Quetzalcoatl don't get like that either. So I think it's just who he is.