silence is golden unless you have a toddler

Hattori listened, taking in her list as she went over their livestock, uses and why they'd claimed the territory for their own. It was all sound and reasonable enough, his ears flicking as he could not think of any glaring gaps in her logic. Her mother had always been...overzealous, in Hattori's opinion, and it seemed as though Modesty had dodged or at the very least didn't openly hold much stock in her kins religion. Hattori had always tolerated it at best, had been willing to look the other way for the sake of Ashen's culture, but it seemed for the most part much of that had been lost to the passage of time.

He found himself agreeing though, made a low noise of ascent in his throat, still following behind.

"What did you make of Ashen's collapse?" Hattori certainly had been surprised, but he wondered what Modesty's take on it was.