The girl sniffed. "I'll go prepare your bathwater. Go take a hot bath so you don't catch a cold!"
"I thought you were going to leave again!" Kris Cooper finally breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his hand to caress her small face. "Go wash your kitten face first!"
He guided her into the bathroom, where Kris Cooper stood with her before the sink. "There... take a look!"
Looking at herself in the mirror, Vera Wave couldn't help but laugh. Her face was smeared with mud from somewhere. She had cried for a while too, leaving her face streaked with black and white, just like a little kitten.
Kris Cooper rinsed his hands under the faucet, then gently pressed her head down, cupping water in his large hands to wash the mud from her face.
After cleaning her small face, he picked up a towel to dry it. He looked at her intently, then nodded in satisfaction.
"Mm, much cleaner now. Go on, change your clothes and wait for me in bed."
"I'm not going."
