In The Yard, Cocteau is known as a Poodle who is decorated like a walking gallery and twice as opinionated. Cocteau keeps a private map of the leaning tree, marked with which corners feel kind and which feel watched. Around the bone polishers den, Cocteau is treated like a small weather system that mostly improves the day. Every so often Cocteau stumbles on a relic too odd to explain and wisely decides to explain it anyway.