Thalia watched as the creature ran away and just stood there breathing hard for a moment before walking over to the bag, bending over and opening it up hoping to find some kind of proof of what she saw rather than just claiming to have seen some spiky monsters with a stinger with only a small sting as her proof...  It wasn't quite believeable.  As she thumbed through the bag, her familiarly took the chance to crawl back up her arm and settle in on her shouldering where it usually roosted.