The closer they got to Abaven the harder it seemed to get to calm Rhythm, now so close she was completely serious, not even a small smile finding it's way to her lips or any real response given to his comment, simply a single word of agreement. Hopefully she'd find that smile again when they got to Abaven, he wanted a happy reunion not a strained one. Of course even he knew there wasn't bound to be smiles, at least not right away anyway.
His gaze would linger upon his sister as she began the search without another word, clearly focussing her energy on that distraction rather than anything else. He wished there was something else he could do but unfortunately so far this was the best plan he'd had. A toad. It was a pretty ridiculous mission really, one he could hope Bass would find the humour in.
He chose to leave her to the hunt, planning on searching the other direction himself, though as he turned his head out of the corner of his eye he spotted something move about ten feet to the other side of Rhythm. "Stop." He told her, voice low though he wasn't actually sure how good a toad's hearing was. "That's a toad isn't it?" He looked more carefully now, the damn thing was incredibly camouflaged and it was only by luck really that Chord had spotted it in the first place.
