"Oh, you think it's nice that I have to carry this around?" Mariana snorted. "Just watch me. Hopefully I won't get the lizard plague or anything."
"You are too worried about that, Mariana," Daniel chuckled. "You are angelic. It would not affect you in any way."
"But still. It would be a cosmetic defect," she argued and then decided that it was better to stop quarreling about something that was ultimately very much trivial and not at all the kind of matter that she should have focused on in the first place.
She tried to pet the head of the beast so that it would not think of her as a malevolent giant. The fear was already gone from those blue eyes, but now the animal had an expression that suggested mischief and chaos.
