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Of course more questions would come, and Auburn found himself feeling silly that he had thought this might go any differently at all. His jaw moved but words did not immediately come out, and he glanced nervously at Jethro while shifting his pale paws. Was the cat already out of the bag anyways? Who was to say the other man wouldn't just tell her everything they had said after Aub had gone? In the end, he couldn't come up with anything but the truth.

"I'm related to Chan. I'm headed to meet him and happened into Jethro. Lucky, huh?"

A smile and small crinkling of his eyes, hoping the information would prove to be nothing notable to the russet woman.

Flair was polite, but.. puzzled, it appeared. Understandably so, Jet thought. They hadn’t exactly been forthcoming on the details. The dark one had intended to leave that to his company to divulge if Auburn so desired.

And before Jethro could completely formulate a response to his co-lead’s subsequent question to try to explain, Auburn did exactly that. His answer was pithier than Jet’s probably would’ve been, but still hit the important points. Notably, Auburn didn’t say son, or Chan was his father. But Flair would probably see that out for herself, now.

As well as why Jethro’d thought it appropriate to provide the young man shelter. Not that he would’ve declined it, before, but.. well. It would be cruel to turn away the relative of one of their closest mutual friends. With nothing he could add feeling appropriate, Jet settled for a nod to confirm the story.

Silence was not the response she had expected, and the longer it dragged on, the more agitated Flair became. She trusted Jethro’s judgment, but she was starting to feel like he was keeping something from her and it put her even more on edge, brows furrowing deeper as she looked to her co-lead for an explanation; And it better come quick! Yet it wasn’t Jethro but the boy who finally spoke up, jolting Flair’s attention back and, for just a moment, putting the full force of her glare on him. She would have modified her expression for Auburn’s sake, but before she could, his words got through to her, prompting a reaction all their own. “Oh, yer Chan’s…” She rushed to answer before coming to an abrupt halt, the smile that had just started to return growing stiff on her lips; Chan’s… What? Looking over the youngster again, there was no denying the resemblance, a little paler and skinnier, but otherwise, he was her friend’s spitting image. Flair found herself rendered mute, stunned by the assumed reality of what stood before her; an image of what she could have had. ”Speech" Thoughts

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