A pang of regret pinched her side as soon as the words slipped from her lips. Though she didn't know the truth behind her accusing stare, she felt the contents in her stomach crawl to her esophagus and block her traqchea. She flicked her ear in an apologetic manner, expecting for the girl to lash out with questions that would ultimately force her to reveal what had happened between her father and her.
But instead of that, Saena bombarded her former Caretaker with words filled with poison that seeked to expose the 'so obvious truth' of how Fox had been the one to drive her father away. As she spoke, Amelie scrunched her face into a confused frown, what did she mean it had been her who drove him away? Asides from the revelation he'd given Fox about his attraction for her, Amelie didn't know anything about Fox and Kisu.
Lasher? Wait what?
Suddenly the yearling understood why the girl was so defensive. They had been caught in a web of confusion the whole time, each arguing about something completely unrelated. Saena was speaking of her dad, but not her biological one but the one she had always known. Though Amelie couldn't know if Kisu had been a lousy father (since she didn't have one to compare him to) she had noticed his absence; and apparently his children had too. The fact that Saena didn't title him as her father was proof of that.
Amelie waited until the girl finished speaking, topping off her snarky remarks with cold disapproval. This was not the child she had seen grow up. And though she could've simply allowed Saena to walk away with hatred in her heart, she flattened her ears apologetically, though their connection wasn't the same as before, Amelie still loved and worried for the quartet.
"Saena, I'm not trying to justufy her actions. She is a bitch, I don't like her all that much either." she began softly, "I wasn't talking about Peregrine." she explained, waiting for the girl to remember that she had another father.
