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[Tally Fontaine]

Tally had known Silas all her life. Well, more accurately, she'd known him all his life. Their fathers had been close friends since boyhood, and when their children were born, they became close as kin. Tally still remembered the first time she'd met Silas. Well, it was less a meeting and more "they left the baby unattended so she'd sort of kidnapped him", but she remembered it nonetheless. After a good hour of searching, they'd found young Tally curled up in the back of a pickup truck, curled protectively around baby Silas. Their dynamic hadn't changed much since then, a fact she was completely okay with.

It wasn't typical of Tally to take things personally, but she tended to behave differently around Silas. Had anyone else sat away from her, she would barely have noticed. But when Silas chose to sit elsewhere, she was just a little hurt, and just a bit curious as to why. She watched him as she ate, noting that it was Otto he was talking to--a nice guy, not someone she'd think would hurt her Silas.

But that didn't mean he wouldn't.

She worried that the moment he took his hands hooves from behind his back, Otto would accidentally say something. It was probably a little shocking to people that weren't expecting it. She got up and started over toward them, trying not to draw too much attention to herself. Silas needed friends, and she was pretty good at scaring people off.

They'd already shaken hands by the time she got there. At least that seemed to have gone over well. Otto didn't look uncomfortable, and Silas seemed okay, but...well, better safe then sorry. Especially when it came to Silas.

She walked up behind her goat-friend and placed her hands on his shoulders, smiling. "Hey," she said softly, ruffling his hair a bit. Then she nodded to Otto. "Uh, hey Fisker." Her tone changed considerably when she addressed Otto, going quickly from soft and kind to cordial, yet gruff. She leaned her chin on Silas' head comfortably. "What's goin' on?"

[Otto Fisker]

Otto had opened his mouth to reply to Silas's question when Tallulah Fontaine appeared. While they weren't close by any means, Otto and Tally had attended Icarus together for some time now and therefore were at least on the level of passing conversation. He smiled up at her and noted her change in tone from when she greeted Silas to when she greeted him and guessed that he'd probably stolen the centaur's meal buddy.

"Hey, Tally!" he said jovially, unable to keep from ducking his head a little like a guilty child. "Sorry, Silas was just keeping me company. Helen left and he seemed nice and all. I hope I didn't steal him from you!" This was the complete truth, not a witty little nudge at Tally's protectiveness. Otto was kind to a fault.