Sun Mote Copse dead as dead can be

When Phox arrived to find Fennec walking along with some random stranger, he felt the sudden urge to attack-on-sight. Fennec had had plenty of friends, some of whom were guys, but there was something prickly about seeing his daughter with somebody Phox didn't know. He knew Fennec could take care of herself, but even if she hadn't been blind, he would have felt the same protectiveness (or so he told himself). He would have felt the same about Q or Alyx, right?

Fennec, he greeted warmly before turning to the bedraggled-looking stranger. And who're you? he asked, although his tone for this question was quite a bit sharper. Ah, that good ol' elitism hadn't entirely died out with time.