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Seeing Tete smile like that made her happy. It made her smile back at him a little bit. He was her friend, basically her only friend, and she didn't want to see him sad. She didn't want to be feeling sad herself, and making him smile, however she'd managed it, cheered her up a great deal. And it was oddly comforting to learn that his situation was similar to hers. It made her feel like she wasn't alone, that her family's situation wasn't unique. And though it was perhaps a bad thing to have in common with someone, she felt a bit closer to Tete because they had it in common. They could talk about it and understand each other in a way someone who didn't live without a mother couldn't.

"Yeah," she said with a nod. "I'm going to ask him. I want to know why she had to leave. But... I'm still worried it'll upset him to talk about it."

Glancing away to the side, her shoulders slumping and her vibrant eyes going dull, Sineri considered her friend's words. Could she live without knowing? Life was far from unbearable as it was. She had a safe home, a loving father, the protection of a large pride... What was she searching for? Nothing but knowledge, really. But she wanted that knowledge so bad. She needed to know why it was Kia left. She needed to know if it was them, she and her siblings, that had caused it.

Morosely, she nodded her head. "Yeah... I have to know. I have to ask, there's no way around it." She sighed softly, her eyes flattening against her skull. "I just hope... dad's not too upset when I do..."

Sin blinked as Tete pressed his head up against her shoulder, her glum expression being replaced by one of mild surprise. Still, she definitely appreciated the gesture of comfort. A little bit of affection always went a long way to cheer her up, and usually it was her father she got it from. But since Ez was part of the problem that was making her feel this way, she could hardly go to him this time. The fact that Tete offered it without being asked made her feel happy, happier than she'd been feeling a few moments ago.

With a little smile, she slowly let her head lean against the top of his, accepting the comfort and offering some in return, silently agreeing that it was indeed time for a hug of some sort. "I hope so, Tete. For both of us."

Being an independant girl, Sin never really sought out the company of others, preferring to sunbathe in peace and do her socialising at home. She hadn't really spoken to all that many others, as strange as it seemed. Tete was really her only friend, and it meant a whole lot that her first friend had turned out to be someone so willing to be there for her when she needed him to be. Though he may actually be the only one, Tete was definitely the best friend she could have asked for, even if only for this reason.

"I'd probably better be heading off soon," she eventually murmured quietly. "The sooner I ask, the sooner I know and it's.. over with." It seemed the smartest thing to do, after all. If she kept putting it off, she might eventually lose her nerve completely. The strange thing, though, was that she somehow didn't want to leave Tete at that moment.

Sineri couldn't really understand why, but she was quite disappointed when Tete moved away from her and their little hug came to a sudden end. Ok, so maybe she had kinda suggested that it did, but she had been reluctant even then. But she nodded, sighing softly in a manner that Tete would probably assume was dread rather than disappointment, shifting her paws through the grass.

"Yeah," she said, a touch glumly. "So... I guess we should go talk to our dads now, then. That means it's goodbye for now." Bleh, and never before had that word needed such force to get out. She wanted that talk with her daddy, but at this moment, moreso did she just want to spend the rest of the day with Tete.

Sineri looked up in surprise, her ears perking upright, as Tete laid a paw over hers. She didn't know why such an action caused such a reaction in her, but it certainly did. A most interesting but mildly alarming sensation was starting in her stomach. She could only describe it as... 'fluttery'. Or perhaps 'jumpy'. Either way, it was strange, and something she definitely blamed on Tete's paw touching hers. She decided, however, that now was not the time to mention it to him, on the offchance he knew what it meant. Maybe she could ask her father... once other, more important questions were out of the way.

Sineri gave Tete a big smile in reward for that. She was unreasonably happy that Tete liked spending time with her like this, in play and in times when seriousness was essential. She hoped he knew she felt the same, though her smile probably communicated that quite clearly, if not more. "How about... we meet back here in a few days? To give us both time to ask what we need to ask and think about the answers we get."

At the word 'date', her eyes widened a little bit in surprise (and perhaps a little bit of alarm, because the fluttery feeling in her stomach went a bit haywire for some unknown reason), and then she dropped them as she took a moment to consider why she automatically took just one innocent word as... something different. But with all the other things on her mind, did she really want to deal with it right then and there? Deciding, finally, that she would dissect this particular feeling and her actions later, she quickly lifted her head back up again to smile back at Tete.

"All right, then! It's settled. We'll meet back right here in, say... three days?" She got to her feet as well even as she said this, slowly beginning to move away from her friend, heading in what seemed to be the opposite direction to the way Tete had to go to find his father.