[Rin presses their lips together for a moment, staring down the sensor-and-camera view of the creature.]

... If something is potentially dangerous you operate from the assumption that it's dangerous and then downgrade to less extreme precautions as new evidence is uncovered.

[They let silence drag for a little while before begrudgingly adding]

Except protocols can't account for things they don't know exist, so of course they're impractical for this.