[@lmpkio] [@antarctic termite]

Mergoux stands aside, arms cross and fuming, though she tries to calm herself, it isn't working for her.
She shrugs Nebulius's hand off her shoulder and turns to face him.
"Don't touch me" she says, not rudely for once but instead more softly and politely, albeit without a 'please'
She listens to what he has to say then glances at Smudge, her mind slowly changing about the creature as she thinks of how she's acted. She claimed she was just a girl... and her actions had done well to reinforce that...
Mergoux sighs to herself and swallows her pride. 
"No, if she's really... Well she shouldn't be out here wandering alone. It's dangerous out here, bandits and the like..."
She looks over at the girl, her anger receding to be replaced with pity, as she was in Smudges situation herself when she was in her 20s. 
"Hey, you. What's your name?" she calls over to Smudge, again not meanly, but with less harshness than in her usual tones.