User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20180124030225/@comment-28358106-20180227031012

"Tsk..."

Tirush shakes her head, giving Adelhard a pitying look. "Such weak words.  I will never understand, Danthe, why you groundlings place words in such high regard, when you fail to even use them when they matter."

"...Not ALL of us." Thomas gives her a slight sideways glare.

"Oh!  No, no, my Danthe, my precious, I did not mean you!" Tirush wraps a wing around Thomas so tightly that only his face shows, making him look like an absurdly adult papoose.

"I think, then, that this might be a good time to give Adelhard," he says from his immobile position, "Exactly what our terms are."

His eyes shift to Adelhard, because he can't otherwise move. "Adelhard, you need to understand that we respect our daughter's position to make her own decisions.  She's old enough to have her own friends, and for us to deny her that would be detrimental and cruel.  I don't think that you're going to steal her away in the night.  What I'm trying to assess is yoir ability to treat her like a thinking creature and not a form of entertainment.  Any boy that has met my daughter once and stops just short of saying he loves her is going to hold my attention."

Despite his stern words, his absurd position takes the edge off of the situation.

Despite his best effort, Marcus unfortunately has the opposite effect. By using force instead of authority to pry Partha free, he's demonstrated strength, and that gets her dander up. She struggles beyond playfighting and pries herself free, leaping to the ground and making an animalistic yawping sound.

Typhon, once she is free, bends down and hisses, hearing her cries. She flattens out on all fours and does something Marcus has never heard. Her hackles rising, her teth bared, Partha gives a juvenile, high-pitched challenge roar.

From there, it's on. Typhon leaps onto her and they immediately become a whirl of snarling, snapping teeth and claws. Both being gangly juvenies they don't seem to be doing each other much harm, but the fight is in earnest.