Tick Tick BOOM

She smiled tiredly at Bass as he admitted he was happier with his male parts, she let it drop, through if she had more energy she would have jokingly pressed her point – most likely to the point of embarrassing her brother. She smiled at the thought but instead of starting that line of speech she would instead curl her tail up around her and look at her Brother-dear. He moved also, coming down to join her and gently placing his head against her stomach. She looked back at his familiar form with all of her love and devotion to her brother amplified in that moment by her hormones. Her heart throbbed, and she moved her head to nuzzle his head behind his ear gently as she looked at him. She had missed him so much through the times she saw little of him, but he was here now, and that was enough.

Her gaze turned almost motherly as she continued to gently nuzzle her brother, pushing down and soothing the fur about his ears. She would turn to look in his eyes in surprise when the question murmured, so seriously through his lips. She would lose contact with his eyes as he looked away and curled further around her. It took a long moment for her to form words, and she could almost feel the tear shimmering against her eyes as she leaned back to nuzzle this time below his neck and whisper softly. “Not as much as I love you Bass, not as much as I love you and Rhythm. I don't know if any man will be enough to take the place you and Rhythm hold in my heart, if any such love could take me from this place, from you two. I need to be here, I need to be with my family, how else can I pull you two from trouble?” the last was clearly meant to be a joke, but her voice was too serious for it to sound so. She sounded troubled, but serious, as the words pooled right from her heart.

"Speech"