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Haunter pointed out that, if her mother was a tramp, then so was her father. Although she wanted to protest, Bones processed this for a beat and then said, "Maybe so! But he didn't know about me and didn't purposefully neglect me and my siblings!" she defended the unknown Atticus. "He didn't even know about us. Me mother ran away on him." Even if her sire had anticipated the possible results of their tryst, Cutlass had cut and run, or so Bones figured.

His joke earned a burst of laughter from her. "I prefer Scamp, if anything," she rejoined with a wink of a pale green eye, proving her unflappability. "And I'm not that little. Me legs are almost as long as an octopus's!" she declared, stretching them out for his examination.