Did he detect jealousy in her tone? “Adopted, huh?” Pascal had known Rapunzel for quite a while, and liked to take pride on the fact that he knew her better than anyone else. But ‘adopting’ someone did not sound like something his friend would do. Then again, she had been gone for a while. “Well, yeah. She used to, until she found me. I’m not a… you know. But I like to help her out. Give her a place to stay when she’s in town.” He shrugged. “So, what did you help her with?”
She did everything she could not to build the defensive wall that she was used to putting up when it came to strangers talking about Rapunzel. And she wasn't sure if it was easier, or harder to keep it down with the other saying that he wasn't like them. "I helped her dodge cops once, and we kind of just, stuck together since then." Apparently, sometimes having an innocent face as cover was useful.
