Garnet's distraction and subsequent veering off to talk to the man went unnoticed by Eiko at first. She had been so engaged in chattering, while she looked around, that she missed that she no longer had Dagger around to talk to and had continued pattering her way down the street. Her small blue head whipped around once she realized she was alone and she came jogging back to where the queen was.

"Hey, Dagger! I thought I lost you!" Even being a bossy little thing, she was still every inch a child and grabbed hold of Dagger's hand, and swung it back and forth. "Who's this?"