"You mean... There's MORE where that one came from?!" Don't mind Lyre here Nobunaga, she's totally not clinging to your back out of being terrified or anything, it's purely for mutual protection! See this way she's keeping you covered... yup.

She's scanning the horizon looking for any more of those things, but all she sees is an off-colored kitten perched in a nearby tree that seems to be... laughing at them? Do kittens laugh? Well this one certainly seems to be. It didn't smell right to be a Laguz... but then again she wasn't able to smell right at the moment, and she couldn't transform into a Laguz anyways. Then she starts getting a nagging suspicion in the back of her head that makes her let go of Nobunaga rather than clinging to him out of fright.

"Waaaait... can these familiar things be any kind of creature?" Like a haughty iridescent blue house cat?