"Someone's coming! Quickly!"
Megan almost instinctively lifted her skirt, and then Shard immediately placed Mia on the table behind her. Transforming into a silver cat, he darted under her skirt.
Little Mia wanted to follow, but Miss Sylvia quickly picked up the dice, black key, perfume vial, and two rings that had fallen on the ground, drawing its attention back to the Fish Training Ring and the Ring of Immortality. When Miss Sylvia straightened up, she saw the red-haired Galina Cavendish walking in:
"Huh? Where's Shard?"
She asked curiously:
"Weren't the girls at the hotel saying that Shard was with you?"
She suspiciously looked at the two of them, who were frozen in expression, sized up the study that clearly had no third person, and then noticed little Mia on the table:
"You wouldn't say that this is your cat, would you?"
