"Why? I wouldn't tell her which weeds I meant to pull or which vacated room I might break into just for funsies," Vax told him in the negative, less flippant than it should have been.

Had she gone out with Elaina on her hip? ...No, there had been the bit about 'her ladyship' before, and that he'd learned was a prim nobleman's idea of a cutesy-poo nickname for his baby daughter.

"She must've taken Trinket though, yeah? He'd charge back like his fur was on fire if Vex got into more trouble than she was ready for somehow."