sometimes the world leaves you behind

OOC notes: Sorry Rhythm and Kat, you know how Ash is...

Cascade had been busy? With what, Ashmedai wondered. She clarified that Rhythm didn't have anything to do with her disappearing, "Good." the boy muttered under his breath, his ears slinking lower. His ears were brought immediately back up when she asked if he had seen the pups. His maw hung open as she mentioned that his dad would show him if he didn't want to intrude. Intrude? Rhythm was the one intruding! Indignantly, Ashmedai's fur ruffled, "No I haven't gone and seen them! I don't wanna see them!" His body went rigid. Why would he want to see the pups? He had no reason to want to see the pups!

Cascade seemed to zone out and Ashmedai would grow concerned again. Even if she was here and laughing, this wasn't the Cascade Ash knew. The strong, bold, laughing woman who taught him to hunt early in life. The woman who shined like a raven in the sunlight. The woman who's eye's lit up with humor, even if she didn't say anything. The same woman who challenged for Et Uxor without so much as a bat of an ear! This wasn't her. Something was wrong.

Before Ashmedai could voice his concerns, Cascade tossed another statement at him.

"You probably smell the pup."

Ashmedai's eyebrow crooked. Pup? His nose twitched. Was that the other smell? Where would a pup- "Cas-" Ash suddenly whispered, "Are you watching her pup? Was there only one? Did she run back to Abaven?" No, that wasn't right, why would she say his dad would take him to see the pups, then have one pup here, "Wait- did you take one? Could she not handle it? How many did she have?" Ashmedai's face scrunched as he tried to think of what Cascade had meant by the pup. What pup? Until he figured it out, his mind kept churning, seeking reasons to blame whatever it was on Rhythm, murmuring awful accusations without concern.