Ivan never saw its abrupt attempt to escape coming.
He never pondered deeply on the matter his little lamb told him about. He was concerned, as well as stupefied when she held out a mini-sized dagger to stab him by her window, and he knew his little lamb wasn't someone who would wield a weapon unless she predicted some kind of threat to her harmless existence. When he asked her about it, she reassured him that it was nothing he needed to work himself up for, and although he chose to comply, his instincts didn't.