we're all monsters

Citadel was going to get the earful to end all earfuls. Her heart was thrumming against her chest, what was he doing away from the castle? He can't wander off in strange lands like this! She had noticed the companions were eerily keeping an eye on her and markedly looking for something. And Bas was nowhere to be found either!

She followed both their scents until she finally came upon his mountainous form in the garden.
"Please tell me you've-" She started to say as she came around him and found the woman he was talking to.

"Oh! Hello! I don't mean to... Interrupt!" She said cheerfully, her eyes still darting about, her pause in speech from her thinking she saw something, craning her neck and all. She had missed the conversation entirely, so absorbed in looking for their wayward toddler. "Has she seen him?" She asked Basilisk, trying to catch up on the conversation, her panicked mother's heart making her impatient. He was out here, certainly, he was also looking for their beloved Cit.


"Speech"