if you're sexy then flaunt it

In response to his father's silent snarl to show off HIS fangs, Chaos pulled the most hideous grimace he could manage, tongue hanging out, muzzle twisted, eyes crossed, but more importantly, every inch of his much longer fangs showing. Ok sure, Chaos was an adult, he was a father now as well, but had anyone ever really claimed that he had matured?

The grimace mutated into a cocky grin. "Oh no, anything but that! Whatever would I do?" he 'wailed' softly in a high pitched puppy voice. The grin felt a little forced after a moment, as the thought caught up to him that eventually, will-he, nill-he, Valentine would be leaving him just as his mother already had. The thought stuck in his throat and froze any more words.

Luckily Valentine filled the silence in a way that dropped Chaos' grin in a moment and made him choke for real. "They... what?" came the extremely intelligent reply. They'd come back? Why, after all their years of having abandoned Imperium, having caused it's dissolution, had she bothered coming back? He was glad to hear of Rhyme's return and would track him down as soon as he could to drag him off on wild adventures again, though it wouldn't be the same without Rhys, but why hadn't he come back sooner?

Chaos took a deep breath, quieting the sudden maelstrom of thoughts that chased each other wildly through his head. "What circumstances are those?" he asked in a too-calm voice. It's hard to take someone seriously when they have to say "thurcumthtantheth" but there you have it. Chaos' expression had closed down entirely, inscrutable and still. He didn't know what to think about Rhythm's return - he knew his father had loved the woman, but between vague memories of her disappearing, and stories of the days before his birth, it seemed to him like she constantly brought trouble and pain along with her. If that's what love meant, count him a bachelor forever. And now she was back, and apparently trouble and pain galloped along behind her again, if the look in Valentine's eyes was any indication.