When Mickey screamed Verity immediately sprang up from the couch, scrambling to get to her. She was crying and whimpering and holding out her finger, and Thief was on the couch next to her. Upon further inspection Verity saw that the ferret had barely even nipped at Michaela's finger, but Verity still gathered the little girl in her lap, kissing the tip of the injured finger and rocking her back and forth, making soothing shushing noises.
When she looked back over at Caleb at his exclamation, her eyes widened to see that he had his wand out.