And food she shall receive, and as soon as Fern determines that Buggy is indeed the good girl that Anders proclaims her to be, she smiles more broadly and offers the fish out to the griffon with shades of her cheery disposition returning.

Inquisitively, she asks Anders, "Do you ever ride her?" Looking at the great animal's back, she tries to picture what a saddle and harness would even look like on a griffon, and keeps drawing a blank.