Elisa had reached instinctively for her gun, but she let her hand drop back to Goliath's arm when the dragon flew off without as much as a downward glance. She was stunned despite herself and despite the strangeness of life on the ship. Every time she thought that she was used to Stacy, something new and unexpected knocked her off balance again.

"I'd definitely have noticed a dragon," she assured him. "Is there anywhere in the ship that it could have been hiding?"