Valen pranced up like a boy, seemingly carefree with a grin plastered on his face, and it drew an answering smile, albeit a lopsided one, from Cascade. Moving forward to meet him without a word, she pressed herself against his side, burying her face in his shoulder, and just breathed in his scent for a moment. Ah. Yes. "Mmmm," she agreed. "I did." She didn't even try to pull away for a long moment, just reveling for a moment in the feeling of just being close to someone, and when she did it was with an affectionate lick aimed for his shoulder, and not far from him.
His proximity and his smile did a lot to sooth the moodiness that had overwhelmed her the last little while, but it was still there. While she smiled, it was a quiet smile with considerably less than her usual flair. Still, it was there which was better than she'd been feeling. "I was watching Evangeline and Seraphim at the meeting," she began with little preamble, a quiet musing. "Our babies are grown up, Valen. They're so much more than I expected, and... It's hard to see sometimes with the bickering Vana and Angel do, but they've grown up so close. They'll never be really alone, because they have each other and that... it's amazing, Valen. It never really occurred to me before but we really made something amazing." And it was exactly that, that had sparked her brooding. But for the moment she remained silent, her gaze fix on nothing as her mind replayed the moment at the meeting, forever frozen in time in her memory, of Seraphim comforting his distraught sister, Vana leaning into her brother's shoulder. She just didn't know how to articulate what she was feeling right now, even to Valentine.
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