Thorax got a bad feeling almost immediately and let the changeling go. He fell to the dusty ground with an ‘oof!’ She studied her surroundings intensely, reaching out and trying to sense anything. No, no hidden signals of inexperienced field agents. Most of what she could sense was more than a dozen metres away in any direction, so the changeling she did need to worry about couldn’t be nearby. They still had some time before whoever these changelings were showed up to shake down little Quartz over here. She rounded on the recovering changeling who was busy picking himself off the ground and rubbing his chest.