[Amelia was a bit more used to dragons -- though not by much. The last one who had traveled with her had stayed in human form most of the time, and the mere idea of her staying to curl around the camp would have been unthinkable.]
[But no time to dwell on that: ACTION was at hand! Immediately the girl dropped what she was doing, springing to her feet, one finger jabbing towards the quarry.]
Okay! Yes! Let's catch some villains red-handed!
[. . . Never mind that Hei To hadn't actually said that there were kedan (or anything else) exploiting the turtle shell. There was a possibility, and for the moment, that was the most important. This was the closest she'd gotten to actually being able to help Tu Vishan, and she was going to take every advantage of it. Raimei's reverse of her earlier decision was a relief.]
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[But no time to dwell on that: ACTION was at hand! Immediately the girl dropped what she was doing, springing to her feet, one finger jabbing towards the quarry.]
Okay! Yes! Let's catch some villains red-handed!
[. . . Never mind that Hei To hadn't actually said that there were kedan (or anything else) exploiting the turtle shell. There was a possibility, and for the moment, that was the most important. This was the closest she'd gotten to actually being able to help Tu Vishan, and she was going to take every advantage of it. Raimei's reverse of her earlier decision was a relief.]