Thanks! These are helpful! They clear up some clunky spots.I added some suggestions in bold.Though they may be unhelpful since I don’t know how to do show-not-tell.
You could add something here to show Peregrine’s surprise, like “his eyes widened as his mind struggled to grasp this new reality” or you could add it after.
You could put a transition like “he took a breath and began to sing” right here.
Gia’s hammock?? The cloak and Gia? Gia’s gurney?
A burden? An inconvenience? An incompetent companion?
Put the ending quotation mark and make a new paragraph?
SweetI like Pearl, despite her jerk-ish tendencies.