[Kodachi gasped. That someone would eat her Mr. Blue Alligator? Her precious confidant and current partner-in-crime? That wouldn't do at all!]

[Immediately, she burst into tears, sniffling and flinging herself down onto his back.]

[It might've been just a fragment of one's imagination, but the turtle did seem to sigh just a little.]

No! This turtle saved my life and kept me from drowning a painful, cruel death at the hands of cannibals wearing vending machines as costumes! [Did that even make sense? Ah, well.]

Aren't you going to save me, good sir? If you aren't, then I bid you adieu! [She buried her face in her shoulder and began to sob noisily.]