As stuttered words fall from her lips, shaky and weak, his eyes softened upon her, but only for a moment. The name she spoke was one he knew all to well, so quickly a grin began to tug at his lips. Chasing it away the best he could, he finds distraction in his faux concern,
"Morty did this to you?!" The rise in his voice was of surprise but it came no surprise to him that the devil clown was capable of attacking someone. Her shift of gaze to an enlarged belly clues to him that the attack was more than cuts and bruises. Again he speaks, this time more rushed in fear that Morty could be lingering near by,
"Yes. I live in Tephra... Come with me. We will protect you from that heartless freak!" He steps nearer to her and then turns, as if to escort her to the islands. Scheme's play out in his mind as another devious grin attempts to creep upon his maw. With a slight turn of his crown he tries to conceal the satisfaction he is about to receive...
@[Mura] quick phone post to move them along