Sun Mote Copse Rosie the Roomba

Fennec asked her question, and it took a moment for Phox to realize what she was really asking. Blind? No. She was... uh, I think she had some bad stuff happen to her before we met, but she could see just fine.. And after, he thought, feeling the sting of the scar on the side of his face. The relationship had been odd. Very odd. Phox wanted to do things right this time around. Or at least a little bit more right.

He wished now that he had some sort of explanation for why Fennec had lost her sight. It was all too easy to think that he might produce another child with the same fate, but would that be so bad? At least then they'd have somebody to look up to (PUN INTENDED). Fennec had to figure most of this stuff out on her own.

Neither of my parents were deaf or blind, either. Unless Elwood, Finley, and Raven have been lying to me all these years. The corners of Phox's lips turned up at that jest. He didn't actually think they were capable of keeping up such a farce for so long. That reminded him that he did want to track them down at some point and just catch up with them. It had been far too long since he'd done that.