Nothing outside of his own kind would be able to affect Mogget in such a way. Or should be able to. Only the other Bright Shiners and their blasted Charter.

But the things he's seen since being plucked from the Old Kingdom...

"There truly are strange things at work across the multiverse," he muses, only half-addressing the cat. "It would be small-minded indeed, to assume we might be the most powerful beings to exist in it."