<div class="floatright">(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et9ttl8zdzQ/TD_-vwBMOGI/AAAAAAAAN5E/eP7JumXuE2M/s1600/1a3f651e06434edab4aee510aaf9f5b6.jpg)</div><br/>Unable to help but grin, tempted to simply leave things be and stay with Miyuki, but understanding that Lupo was having some problems as well and would need some companionship, Michelle gestured silently to excuse herself.  She moved over to Lupo's door, knocking gently upon it to catch the girl's attention but not entering just yet.  If Lupo wanted some privacy right now, that would be accepted as well.<br/><br/>Looking back past the hallway to Miyuki, although she could barely see the Asian girl, Michelle held up her necklace a bit.  "This is a lucky rabbit's foot my dad gave me.  It's the only hare out of about a thousand that the child of a hunter chose to want to save and keep as a pet, and it managed to live to be fifteen as well.  In rabbit years, that's practically Methuselah."  It was an oversimplified version of the tale, but it would do for now.  She then showed the feather.  "This is Flies-With-Fury, a Thunderbird who comes to aid me when I get into too much trouble."