Cho was glad that he caught himself. She would have felt bad if she bruised him with her news. "I am happy," she said, turning to send a beaming smile at Cormac. "Very happy. Even another Ninja attack couldn't change that."
Fishing out her amulet with its multi-tailed fox image, she said, "I found this at the compound that Li Angdian abandoned me at on the edge of the Gobi. Within it is a huli jing, a Chinese fox demon. Which is not a demon in the Western format of being evil or a fallen angel. A better translation would be a very powerful immortal supernatural being which is a bit awkward. Huli jing are concidered neutral unlike the kumiho of Korea which tends to assume the form of a beautiful woman in order to capture human men for dinner or the kitsune of Japan which is generally concidered benevolent." She had to draw a breath before the prattling caused her to faint.