The Sentinels come on, make it easy, say i never mattered.

She was so used to it escalating. Even despite remembering how Penn was, she was waiting for him to start in back. Then she'd just walk away and keep going and fucking... yeah. She had no idea what happened after that. Really, at this point, she had two friends in this world. And now that number was at one.

He didn't. Instead he came up and hugged her. She was caught completely off guard by that, as she'd gotten so used to avoiding it with Bronco. She actually took a small step back before she remembered that she didn't need to, and when she did, there was no way she wasn't returning it. She couldn't have pretended to not want it if she tried.

Her ears went back and she buried her face in the fur of his chest, the place that was immediately in front of her and easy to find. If she talked she was gonna cry and there was no way she was doing that in front of Penn. She'd die first. This hug itself had her close enough to it and that was after he had her contemplating leaving already. She was compromised... give her a minute. Or an hour. Fuck, she needed this.