[color=D6CC88]Amuné gasped as the boy lifted her and Ethan up and ran off with them.  He was /strong/, stronger than the blacksmith back home!  He certainly didn't look it, though.  Wyth gave a quiet yowl and bounded after the boy.  His girl was going away from trouble, and he approved, though he wasn't sure about the newcomer with the funny smell.  Amuné wasn't sure about him, but he seemed to want to help, and Ethan thought it was okay, so she didn't protest.  In fact, when the boy picked her up again she realized it was rather fun, travelling quickly like that.  It felt a little like she imagined flying would.

When they finally were far enough that Ethan thought they'd be safe, he indicated a bag to her, saying it had food.  She didn't wait for him to take it off, but slipped her hand inside and pulled out the first thing that felt like food she touched.  An apple.  The girl took a large bite, closing her eyes to better enjoy the taste.  She wanted to gobble it down as fast as she could, but she remembered hearing something about eating too fast after a long time with nothing being bad, so she resisted.  Wyth dropped the half-eaten fish he still had in his mouth and looked at his girl, wondering if she wanted some of it.  "No, Wyth.  You eat," she told him, scratching his head.  If Ethan had food, she didn't need to eat something in that condition anymore, though earlier that day she would have fallen upon it without a second thought.

Cecil talked funny.  He seemed to think he was Machina, but that didn't seem possible.  No Machina looked like a person, did it?  Maybe he was sick.  There were illnesses that could make you hallucinate, or sometimes old people got things mixed up, but he wasn't old.  But he didn't seem bad, just strange.

When the Ydran woman arrived, Amuné put Wyth between them.  Her tone wasn't too friendly, nor did she seem pleased that Ethan was Magi.  The child looked at the cobra fox beside the woman.  It was older, and something tugged at her when she looked at its eyes, so Amuné quickly looked away.  She didn't want to See anything with strangers around if she could help it.  They wouldn't understand.  The girl shrank away when the woman looked in her direction, moving behind Ethan.  Why had she followed them?  What did she want?[/color]