Rhythm seemed to be taking her seriously, and she would respect her Aunt for that, through Shaye's serious demeanor would melt a little into a smile as she looked up at the woman she loved. When she couldn't find Rhythm she had worried, and felt lonely, so being with her now soothed that, and she made no complaint as Rhy scooted closer, having the smaller girl between her for-paws, her chest lowered to the earth to be closer to Shayes smaller height.
First of all, Rhythm would explain that she didn't stub her toe, she was just so happy to see Shaye that she cried, and the little girls brow furrowed at this odd explanation. She had never felt so happy to see someone that she cried – she got happy enough to dance about and wag her tail and lick their faces, but never cry. Really, she had had little reason to cry in her life, and had certainly never seen her dad do so, so the idea of emotions out there so strong in both the negative and the positive to make someone cry was still kind of baffling to her.
Then, she would go on to explain her story and Shaye could immediately see she was getting the hard truth, not an adults edit, so she listened very carefully. She frowned as she explained a bad man had come to take Rhythm away and Bass fighting hard to keep her – that didn't sound very good at all! But she kept the surprise off her face and said nothing, not willing to ruin this chance at hearing the truth. The first part of the story was hard enough to wrap her head around, and Shaye's lips moved as she silently repeated some of the stuff to herself ... I had to leave with him. Valn liked the idea and asked me to stay... he brow furrowed further as she thought all this through, and well she had some questions, she still waited.
Rhythm then explained that Bass had come for her, and Shaye nodded her head, knowing that Shai would always come for Shaye no matter what trouble she had gotten herself into, and Bass was kind of like that with Rhythm – and of course Bass would want to bring Rhythm back to Shaye, they where playmates, and they belonged together. “I.. hmm” she said, and closed her mouth again, only to open it a moment later. “i'll ask from the start first, okay?” she clarified with Rhythm, then jumped into it, trying to be very grown up with all of this, so that Rhythm would keep her in the loop more often, so that she could trust Rhythm to tell her the truth. “First, why does a bad man live with Valentine, does that mean he's still here in the same pack as you? Because if it was Bass's pack, I wouldn't have thought Bass would let bad men stay, but... I guess I don't know how that works” she admitted, and she didn't give Rhythm a chance to reply yet, but continued on. “If your staying here does that mean your a part of Valentine's family now? Instead of mine? And Bass was very angry, did he tell you you couldn't come back after trying to get you back? But what if you missed me and wanted to come back and live with us again, would Bass not let you do that either? And I guess.. if you cant come to me I will have to come to you” she added in at the end.
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