Sun Mote Copse The thing about kinked tail

Perhaps because she was already grappling with her inner possessiveness over Meerkat, the joke didn't land particularly well. -"Not funny,"- she rebutted, leering at Wraen, though her hard expression eased a little in the following moment. She knew the Sovereign was kidding, even if Towhee wasn't currently in the right temperament to take the joke.

It would've been a good time to excuse herself out of this conversation entirely, though she found herself lingering as she realized just how effectively Wraen had cleared her head of Arcturus, after all. Only he was back now, crowding into the forefront of her brain, and she found herself blurting, -"Hey, can I ask you something? Unrelated to any of this."- Well, kind of.