damn right

She shrugged eloquently at his words. "My dad was killed - I'm told he tried to rape someone - and my mom went crazy and took off. It was just me and Neios and Nausica and you can imagine they weren't the safest company for a sensitive -" whiny, delicate, naive - "pup. I got lost, and there was no one to come find me. I learned pretty quick that any loner willing to take in a little girl was looking for something I wasn't willing to give to anyone. I was safer on my own. What about you? Somehow I can't picture Cataleya as the cuddly loving mother."

She rubbed her shoulder on the ground, dropping her head to the side to continue to watch Valen, before rolling up onto her back beside him with her legs dangling into the air. Idly she wondered if he'd protest if she just kept rolling over until she could burrow under him, but she refrained. After all, she still didn't know how Valen felt, and she didn't really fancy being rejected again. She scowled at the thought, but deliberately shoved it away and instead wiggled, feeling the grass scratching her back in a very satisfying way.