[color=D6CC88]It took a bit of determined ignorance on the part of Nymira and the others, but Amuné's struggling and loud wails subsided after a while.  One of the biggest reasons she quieted was because she was simply worn out, and temper tantrums were draining.  Eventually she just rested her head against the Dimuran's shoulder, only bothering to look around once they reached the mayor's home.

That proved to be a mistake.  The sight of the shrivelled man made her gasp.  She'd never seen anything like that before, and it was awful.  When Bernadette confronted Zander about it, she realized it must be a Seal Paper, like Zander had mentioned using earlier.  And he said he'd done something to the mayor, hadn't he?  She thought she'd heard something like that, though she'd not been paying particular attention at the time.  So when the guard accused Zander, she accepted it as the truth.  "Why'd he kill the mayor?" she murmured softly to Nymira.  The woman had barely managed to answer the question when an agonized scream split the room.

Machina were attacking.  They were obviously Machina, though humanoid ones.  Amuné had never seen so many in one place -- and she'd never seen any Machina, with the exception of Cecil earlier -- attack someone.  This time it was the Machina starting the fight, though, and that made even less sense.  The girl whimpered, her hand tightening on a fistful of Nymira's shirt.

Wyth bristled and snarled, but he didn't go to attack.  There were people fighting far more effectively than he could.  The attackers smelled a lot like the strange boy travelling with his girl, and his paw still ached from when he'd struck the boy's head.  He didn't have a good way to take them down, and certainly not with several of them.

A window shattered, and Amuné shrieked as more machines tried to enter the room that way.  She blanched when the guard that went to deal with the ones coming in the window was run through, starting to shake.  When Nymira tried to give her to Ethan she went willingly, wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing her face against his shoulder.  This day just kept getting worse.  She heard another scream -- that sounded like Cecil, and she couldn't keep from looking to make sure he was okay.  Despite everything the boy had done back on the ship, she still felt sorry for him when she realized he was frightened by how a couple attacking Machina had just been melted.  She knew exactly how he was feeling.  "Let me down," she told Ethan, as they waited for everyone else to get out the window.  "I can climb and run on my own."  She might not be as fast as the adults, but if Ethan was all worn out from carrying her that would make them even slower.[/color]