Meeting The Mentor

The mentor in my book, Behemoth, is Alek, to a fabricated creature that hatched from it's egg when Alek was in the same room as it. The creature was later named Bovril. It has the ability to talk to express it's feelings and follows Alek around everywhere because it think Alek is it's mother. Bovril learns words by repeating bits of conversation to Alek and his other companions.