Immediately, his skinny arms extend to embrace the two. One arm around Bee, the other around 'Tara. Chirping quietly, his tongue occasionally flicks out to "groom" away as many tears as he can. It's an animal-in-the-wilds thing, nothing sick.

"Not abandon thee. Here, still. Not leave thee in Alone-ness."

That word "Aloneness" is said with the kind of tone one has when speaking of something incredibly beyond taboo.