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Not a terribly useful world, the girl decides. They have barely any magic, it's hardly likely they'll be able to help. She sighs. She should've stayed in that world with witches for longer, surely she'd have been able to find someone to help...? She makes sure she's gathered all of her things—not that there's a whole lot of them, they need to fit in a backpack—grabs her knife, closes her eyes, and feels. She sifts through the worlds, looking for somewhere inhabited, with similar footing... she tries remembering the world with the witches, maybe she'll find it again, or a similar one? Oh, here's a similar one, yeah, she could try it. She slices down just a little bit, to peer through it. No one on the other side, good, it's a similar spot to the one she's at. She widens the hole, steps through—
Sadde looks down at the girl and chuckles. "Yes, he does, doesn't he? He's very grumpy."
"It's because he needs a hug! You're not hugging him right!"
"Ooh, yes! Can I?"
A little mouse climbs on the girl's head and twitches its nose.
The mouse—
—shifts—
—and becomes a ferret, slithering down the girl's clothes. She giggles.
He closes his eyes, but fails to shapeshift, so he shrugs. Then he looks down at the girl and says, "You may."
"Yaaaaay!" the girl says, and, being only a little bit taller than the daemon, wraps her arms around him—
"Hee, your feathers tickle!"
And the girl probably didn't hear or notice Sadde's suffering, her eyes closed and her face buried in Luca's feathers—
"Oh my God, Annabelle let go of them this instant!" a woman's voice calls, and the girl eeps and lets go of the falcon.
Luca's released and immediately jumps/flies towards Sadde in a very ungraceful manner—
—and she hugs him and holds him close and says soothing gibberish into his feathers, burying her face in them, kissing her spirit animal.
"I am so sorry, I don't know what could've come over her," the mother starts apologising. She throws the girl a look. "You don't touch other people's daemons! You hurt them when you do!"
The girl's eyes start filling with tears and she starts sobbing. "I—I just—just wanted to—to give him a hug! He was so grumpy!"
"You do not touch someone's daemon!" the mother repeats. "Apologise!" Then she turns back to Sadde and says, "I'm really, really sorry, she didn't know what she was doing..."
The little spectacle did the opposite of drawing a small crowd, and people seem to be mostly steering clear of them.
"'S fine," she mumbles into Luca's feathers. "Couldn't've known..." She sniffles a bit, looks at the woman, and asks, "Do you know where a library is?"