There was a considerable amount of time where Rinoa thought the two of them could be the real thing. They weren't in love, no, but there was attraction and more than that between them, but looking back on it there was no small amount of reality that she was doing the classic rich girl thing of getting back at her father. Seifer was everything her father would've hated. She did like him, a lot, and things going wrong between them wasn't even really about them. Or their fault. There were powers in play so far above what they could control. She wasn't the only victim of a sorceress' influence.

"She's not a monster, she's a baby. A pet." She wasn't offended though. They did live in a place with monsters and it wasn't like Julia was so drastically different from the kind they fought. Rinoa looked over at her little monster, who stretched out her belly requesting a scratch. Rinoa did just that with her gloved hand. "We found a whole litter in a mining expedition, Mr. Stark needed the materials to build weapons for all of us. And there they were. Several people in the village have her siblings. It sort of happened." And of course Rinoa with her bleeding heart was won over instantly.

Rinoa sighed at his reaction. "Listen, if you don't want me to be here, then I'll go to another room and you can stay here until the storm passes. There's no reason to go back outside if I'm the problem." She brushed her caramel streaked hair over her shoulder, glancing up at him. "There's food and water if you need it, and I brought you a blanket. So ... stay or I'll worry about you dying out there." She turned to leave the room just as she said she would.