You know what, that's a decent reason to not have horns! Seems like it would have been difficult to get the leverage to do it, this guy must be really strong.

"Oh! I'm Laios Touden. Does this have anything to do with the Winged Lion? Because we were going to get him out of the Mad Sorcerer's spellbook as soon as we woke up; but we really needed to eat something and sleep after that fight before we got started on spell-breaking."

There's a lot less winged lion iconography than Laios has gotten used to in the dungeon. Plus there was all of that 'outside' outside. This situation is extremely disconcerting.