Sea Lion Shores i want a hot dog real bad

Artaax seems to ignore what she says to say. She steels her jaws and looks away. It’s not the first time it’s happened and honestly she can’t remember what she’d said then that he’d talked over her or simply ignored her. Opening up about her mother isn’t something easy for her to do. She hadn’t even told Blixen about it, but as much as it hurts that he did not hear it, there is some part of her glad he didn’t and she can store the information away again.

She closes her eyes and fights off the hurt welling inside and listens as he explains something about… Bat, she thinks. Or someone that left—they’re all there—she shakes her head to try and listen, glancing up to see a similar pain in his eyes and she wants to be mad that he didn’t listen to her, too, but this moment isn’t about her and she tries to keep that in mind.

Mallaidh doesn’t say anything, looking at her friend as he processes it all and she pieces together what she actually heard.

“I’m sorry,” she says quietly, looking away at something else.