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Valette didn't take long to find. By the time Murdock reached her, he still wasn't quite sure how to start this conversation. It felt a lot like tattling to him, but whether he liked it or not, he knew that it was valuable for Valette to know what was going on in Steph's life. After all, who would know better what to do for Steph than her mom?

"I'm worried about Steph," he began, ears flicking back as he spoke. "She's been avoiding me since I got back, and just now when she saw me - " Murdock gave as short a run-down of their conversation as he could without leaving anything out, even some of the more hard-headed things he'd said to the woman's daughter. It was beyond him that he should've been pulling his punches - he didn't know how to talk to kids.

"She was very angry, and very hurt," he finished, ears now drooping on either side of his head. "I don't know what to do."