With her general awareness she had of Ishiah's friends, it didn't take long to place the name with a face, cute, blonde, the type he'd probably felt protective towards. The fact that she'd been his friend for so long wasn't a surprise and only added to what she imagined was his issue. The fact that he wet so far as to consider her family... spoke volumes more. Absently, she wondered if she'd ever fell that way about anyone here, but she pushed it away for later consideration.

But his follow-up concern, well, that was more in her wheelhouse. "Tricked? How? And are you worried that it's happening again?" She paused in her movements to watch him, suddenly interested far more than she should have been.