“Hello, Giselle. I’m surprised to see you. How’s your arm?” “Better.” Giselle raised her casted arm, covered with her little brothers’ drawings. “I have a smaller cast, now.”

“Maybe you shouldn’t ride Dark Star until your arm is completely healed.”

The girl glanced toward her small ranch house at the base of the sloping hillside, then back at the man. “I’ll be okay. The snow’s melted, and there’s no ice.”

Which inference does this excerpt best support?