[gremlin]

Despite her father possibly wanting her to go to her room Judith remained in the kitchen. She lingered by the back door quietly, her ears perked up as she tried to listen to their conversation. It felt as if her head was going to explode at any moment, what was going to happen now? Of course Judith knew of her father's dislike for Dark Elves more than any other person in the world. When she tried to imagine what he would say to her when he later confronted her it made her nervous. What would she say? What would she do? She would be a nervous wreck when he finally brought himself to speak to her. That was if he could even bare to look at her anymore after what he had seen, her being so close to Rhyldrin like that.

Judith pulled herself away from the back door as she heard someone approaching. Her eyes searched the kitchen for a reason to give for why she was still downstairs rather than up in her room hiding from everyone. She went to the kitchen table, perhaps she still had some time to retreat to her room upstairs. Though before she could find anything or retreat from the kitchen she heard the back door creak open, then someone stepped into the house and slammed it behind them. Judith jumped a little despite expecting it, she reluctantly looked towards the door. Her ears fell and a nervous smile crept across her face, she wanted to speak though she held back her words.

There was something odd about her father though she couldn't really understand why she even saw that. He didn't seem as upset as she had expected him to be. He didn't go straight to the alcohol to drown himself in because of what he had seen. He was not yelling at her or breaking things like he had done when she was a child. Judith tapped her fingers on the surface of the kitchen table as she watched her father, he stood by the kitchen door and looked right back at her. The fact that he was not speaking but was managing to look at her made her feel as if she could spit up what she had had for dinner.

"I'm a lot smarter than you think I am," Judith could hear her heart pounding in her ears, she continued to watch her father despite being so nervous. She would not look away from him. "I knew that you were sneaking out at night, I knew that you were seeing a man." he stepped away from the back door then slipped off his coat and hung it on a hook by the door. He looked over at Judith. "I also happened to notice that you stopped sneaking out once that Dark Elf left." though Judith was rather pale to begin with it looked as if any color she had had drained from her face.

Geoffrey cleared his throat, when he took a step towards Judith and brought himself to stand in front of her she flinched. "I'm not going to yell at you or scold you," he breathed out a sigh. "You're a damn woman now, not a child anymore." Judith wanted to speak though she hesitated to, her father was not done speaking and she was afraid to anger him if she interrupted him. "You're the only one I have left now, Judith." his voice cracked a little though he did not cry. "I know that you're grown but you will always be my little girl and all I want is for you to be happy." a weak smile grew on Geoffrey's face, he took a step away from Judith. "If this is what makes you happy then so be it." he mumbled quietly, he looked away from Judith for a moment then brought his eyes back to her. Her ears fell, Judith could feel her body shaking. What had her father just said to her?

Her father walked away from her, Judith wanted to grab his arm and ask him to repeat what he had said though she knew what he had said. "I'm going to bed now," he said to her before retreating upstairs to his room. Judith stood silently in the kitchen, she listened to him go to his room then close the door quietly behind him. Judith's eyes went to the back door and she went to it without hesitation. She opened the door then took a step outside. Her eyes fell on Rhyldrin who still remained in the back yard. She wanted to speak though she wasn't quite sure what to say.