Blacktail Deer Plateau Hail rain or sunshine

For a long minute, Saena kept her head turned, staring hard at anything but Amelie. She didn't really dislike the Caretaker, but a part of her cracked and bled at the notion that someone would think Fox was anything but the enemy. She glanced back when Amelie explained she didn't like Fox much. That was better, thought Saena; nobody should like a homewrecker.

She opened her mouth to ask who Amelie meant then, but then it was like puzzle pieces sliding into place. Her jaws snapped closed on mid-air and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Kisu?" she asked slowly. Sure, Kisu had lent his genes to Saena, but aside from that, he'd been as much a dad as her uncle Atticus. In fact, Atticus being her dad was more plausible; he'd certainly been more involved in her life as a kid than Kisu really had, had been there for more events, even though she'd seen neither hide nor hair of him since getting back.

"He wasn't a good dad," Saena said quietly, "actually, he was a terrible dad. I didn't know he was my dad for a long time and then, when he told me, he took off shortly after." She carefully watched Amelie's face and silently prayed that the yearling didn't try to defend Kisu. For once, Saena wasn't exaggerating, and wanted her opinion of her biological father to be left right it was: in a ditch where it did her no harm

"Were you... involved or something?' As surprising as it might be to Saena if that was the case, she wouldn't find it wrong or shameful. Her family was extremely unorthodox as it was, so Amelie courting Kisu would have seemed normal.