With a lot of persuasion and a sumptuous dinner, Uncle Bear, who was ravenous, was finally persuaded to stay.
If Hudson had known this, he wouldn't have wasted his time. He cursed himself for being foolish. This guy obviously loved to eat and was lazy, but Hudson didn't recognise and take advantage of this obvious weakness.
Having completed the first step of his plan, Hudson was at a loss about how to transform the cub into his mount.
Theoretically, after a knight awakened the Heart of Life, it could increase one's affinity with magical beasts, but the amount of this increase varied from person to person.
Some people took a stroll in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and managed to find a decent mount, while others became droppings of magical beasts after a stroll there.