[It was too thin to be a rock, or at least not a common and naturally occurring one. Maybe someone had carved it to look like a scale, but...
Kaede leaned a bit to grab the scale, mindful of tugging the horse's reins too much. It was lighter than she thought, strangely tapered, and jaggedly broken at one end like something had run into it.
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[It was too thin to be a rock, or at least not a common and naturally occurring one. Maybe someone had carved it to look like a scale, but...
Kaede leaned a bit to grab the scale, mindful of tugging the horse's reins too much. It was lighter than she thought, strangely tapered, and jaggedly broken at one end like something had run into it.
Or its owner had.]
Must have been a big lizard.