Fern's scream cuts through the darkness, and Miaren looks up like a startled deer.  With a clipped oath, she gives the girl a shove towards the outer room, where their other charge is presumably waiting.<br/><br/>"Draque!" she calls.  "It's still got her!"  She felt like an idiot for not seeing it earlier - maybe she was too focused on the village girl, or she'd assumed it would drop both of its prizes - but there was no time for self-recrimination.  She heads down the hall after the retreating Thing.