Eyes laid on her palms and more importantly the star shaped wand in her palms, Star rolled the handle of her family heirloom over and over. Like she was looking for something but never pinpointed what that exactly was. Not a minute peep from either mewman.

They sat in silence after the last word falling from the guilt riddled mouth Kathryn felt horrible for telling this part of her story, "...I'm sorry Star."

Blotting at the tears moistening the corners of her blue eyes, Star looked mid wipe over at Kathryn, "I mean...I never met her, I...I just kind of wish my mother told the truth about grandma more than anything...finding out in a prison cell way after the fact....just makes it feel so indifferent...I didn't know her but somehow I still love her? If that makes any sense."

Outlining the well pressed lapel of the jacket now unfolded on her lap. Kathryn found it harder now realizing her crimes than when they were acted out years ago, "...yeah, it makes sense to love them no matter what."

Wiping what little dewy tears did come to her face, Star saddled herself with the fact that had to be the end of Kathryn's story, "So...then you got banished? I mean, that happened and you got sent to earth for-"

"Your mom never knew it was me, Mewni didn't really know one of their own helped the monsters," Pinching the bridge of her nose the slow onset of a headache came on the outskirts of Kathryn's mind, "Your mom never knew I was in that room, the High Commission didn't really understand either, they thought Tof-" Drawing back from saying his name out loud Kathryn chewed over her words carefully before saying really what she needed to, "I wasn't banished right then and there. Your mother was Queen and she came to the camp before anyone even realized there was a mind controlled mewman among the monster war band."

"My mom, came to the monster camp...? No no no that doesn't sound like her at all she hardly does anything that's not queenly."

"Yeah well she was young and stupid and should have stayed in these stupid castle walls before ruining everything I had!"

Kathryn's lash out over the nothingness of what had happened so long ago startled Star. She didn't really understand what she was suddenly upset about and it clearly reflected on the princess's face.

Sighing softly she lowered her face and buried it in the tattered jacket. Unable to really find something to say Star remained quiet. Until Kathryn found her words again, "I was banished after your mother attacked the camp and....she caused a lot of things to change for me."

Flashback

Tucked between the broad back of the lizard facing towards the doorway and the taut canvas wall of the tent, Kathryn's face was smashed into the nape of Toffee's neck. Wafts of black hair swathed over her own mess of fair curls in one lump of mess. Left arm draped over his side and the other uncomfortably crammed in some weird position between both their bodies. Most of Toffee's larger body center in the crowded cot as Kathryn slept against his back. His tail comfortably between her legs as it led up her back and the last little bit drooped over her side and coiled around the arm she clutched him tight with in the minimalist display of Toffee's clinginess.

Sun fluttering under where the tent met ground with each small gust, it was well past the early hours Toffee normally woke himself up at. Septarian stirring before the mewman did he unglued himself from Kathryn's entire front. Sliding to the indent of the cot she reached out in a slow stretch as Toffee oriented himself with an unusual late morning start. Troops outside could be heard mumbling about something but neither of them cared to listen close enough.

Aware Toffee didn't speak much when he got up, Kathryn curled up on the soft woven blanket that had been pulled back when Toffee got up. Nestling her face into the heavily scented blanket she took her time in Toffee's bed since she wasn't sure when the next time she'd get to be in it.

Dawning his suit of armor Toffee did sit back on the edge of the cot when he got to his boots and knee plates. He surprisingly didn't tell Kathryn to move. Instead using his tail to encourage the female to sit up as he sat down. Getting the gist of what he wanted, she sat up and laid her warm bare skin against his back. No arms aloud around his waist but she did rest her cheek against his shoulder as the lizard enjoyed the heat of her still naked body.

Toffee's tail slipped up and discreetly curled around her waist just a little tightly, "Mine."

Kathryn turned her face and pressed her lips to the top of his shoulder as his voice resonated in her body, "Yours."

"General! General! There seems to be-" The trio of monsters that came rushing into the tent did not have enough of a proper reaction to the sight of their commander with the tiny undressed mewman behind him. Toffee's deathening stare gave them all whiplash as they stopped dead in their tracks. General and his mewman conscript gazed un-amused at the monsters who'd barraged in and got exactly what they deserved for doing so.

Coming to one bold bull monster cleared his throat and proceeded with the relay, "General...sir...we have a visitor."

"Visitor?" Toffee blase about what they prattled off, he rose from the cot and left Kathryn scrambling to cover herself up embarrassed, "And do tell, who do we consider visitors?"

Faint of heart they all looked around at who would be the one to tell him. Until the bull who spoke first was tagged it, "....the princess, sir."

A bit surprised to hear that the newly orphaned princess made claim down to monster country, Toffee didn't reveal too much in the bold action, "Be gone I will deal with this." He whisked them off and like he gave them permission to breath all three ran out in a flash. Ready at the mention Kathryn had already dawned a cotton tunic and her trousers with intent. Squashed before it even began Toffee sat her back down on the bed, "No."

"No?" Tinged with loathing for his words Kathryn scowled and began to stand back up again, "We just dealt with this brats mother I think I can-"

"I will," Toffee firmly pinned her back down on the cot. Narrowing yellow eyes on her Toffee shook his head, "You-" He lifted the tense grip he'd pushed her down with and replaced it with his right palm cupping her cheek. Adamant hold to Kathryn's chin when Toffee swiped his thumb over her lip and gazed down at her, "Stay."

Gone like a ghost his touch followed him out the tent as Toffee made his grand arrival. Whispers and murmurs leaving as he did. Bitterly stunned Kathryn sat like her butt was made of lead. Genuinely appalled being left behind she couldn't believe it. Ticked there was little to no second of thought when Kathryn jumped off the cot and made for the tent door.

"But you may call me Toffee."

"Toffee? How is that any better?"

Kathryn slinked around the corner of one of the erected buildings closest to where she could hear Toffee's voice. Peering through a thick gather of monsters she caught a glimpse of the Septarian's broad shoulders turned to the gagging on looking monsters.

"What do you want princess?"

Butting her way through Kathryn got close enough she could see Toffee at least before the dainty little girl on her picnic blanket. Slightly repulsed Kathryn didn't graspe what the twit could have thought would happen wandering out to monsters on her own. Just before her was not just Toffee but Rasticore as well as a slew of the larger more fierce monsters Kathryn had met. The little princess was being foolish.

"I want you to leave this land," The princess held up what seemed to be a chunk of meat on a fork, Kathryn scowled and leaned in closer to hear, "Or face the consequences."

Low chuckles bubbled up in the group. Toffee remained stoic with a cocky smile and did nothing as Rasticore laughed out loud very poignantly, "Your mom couldn't defeat us! Ha and neither can you!"

Kathryn rolled her eyes but didn't let up on listening to the princess, "I was hoping you would say that." Diligently chewing the piece of meat she hunked off, the princess finally rose with wand in hand. Unnervingly strong in her little conviction, Kathryn felt her guts start to squirm and wiggle, something about this didn't feel right.

"We're not afraid of your little girl magic!" One large croc shaped monster laughed at the mewman's threat.

"We're invincible!" Rasticore stuck his fist out towards the other monster who spoke up with him, "Just watch-!"

Immediately Rasticore shoved his fist into his comrades mouth. The princess well aware of the lizards ability looked at them disgusted in their little display even after she insisted they didn't need to. A crunch and Rasticore's arm was taken off above the elbow. As the mewman princess gagged, Rasticore quickly reformed his over sized arm and the crowd of monster's cheered. No matter how many times the giant green idiot pulled that trick even Kathryn wasn't use to it. Toffee not too bothered as his monsters did exactly what they did and proudly.

Whatever their little display was had no effect on the princess as she held out her wand. Elbows locked and eyes fluttering shut she began to chant.

"I call the darkness unto me-"

Kathryn's blood curdled the second the princess waved over the dumb party trick and raised her recited words stirred panic in the mewman.

"From deepest depths of earth and sea, from ancient evils unawoken,"

Every idiot around stood gawking at the magic forming around the little princess standing before them. No one becoming frantic like Kathryn was.

"Break the one that can't be broken. From blackest night I pledge my soul. I crush my heart to burning coal."

Fight or flight kicked in and Kathryn began pushing through the crowd towards Toffee who stood just as arrogant as the rest of the monster warband.

"To summon forth a deathly power to see-"

Almost there, nearly within reach Kathryn honed in on only one thing as everything in her body was telling her something was amiss. The final words falling from the princess's mouth driving a spike of ice right through her chest.

"My hated foe devoured"

Having enough of the rambling from the puny magic user and his own troops Toffee glanced around at the influx of clouds swirling around as the princess's wand swallowed up in black inky light, time to end this charade he stepped up raising his hand disregarding the fact the wand's chaotic energy was pointed directly at him, "Enough of this-"

Split second flare and Kathryn rushed out shrieking at the top of her lungs, "Toffee!"

"Kathryn?!"

"A mewman?!"

Caught off guard Toffee turned the moment the princess angled her blacken magic shot up too high. What was aimed for the heart, suddenly severed Toffee's right middle finger. Enough resonating power in the blast that he was thrown back. Horror on Kathryn's face as Rasticore snagged her from going any further towards their commander's body. Struggling she couldn't rip free of the giant monster's grip.

Tears streaming down her blotchy cheeks Kathryn snapped her eyes from Toffee up to the princess standing with the literal smoking gun, "You-"

Aghast none of her counsel said there was a mewman trapped with these monsters, the princess's mouth fell open trying to conjure up something to say to the hysterical woman being held back. Good as her words may have been, they were stopped as Toffee gave a hearty chuckle as he rose from the ground, "Have you learned nothing." Cavalier about the little scratch inflicted by the princess's poor aim, Toffee held out his hand to display what Rasticore already had.

In the juncture it took one lizard to regrow his arm, Toffee watched as his middle finger materialized from the bone. Forming up perfectly. Until the skin reached his second knuckle. Quickly turning black and ashes dusting from where his finger should have respawned. The smoky ghost of a sooty butterfly wafting from where his finger wouldn't grow back.

Now the fear Kathryn had been feeling from the start, exploded in the group of monsters.

"It's not growing back!" All it took was one subordinate's shrill scream and all the monsters scattered like rats. Rasticore dropped his hold on Kathryn and made for the quickest escape like the rest. Ranks fell apart and deserted the lizard as he stood irate about what the teenager had just done before his men. Those who ran were replaced with Kathryn urgently coming up to the injured septarian.

Expecting the mewman to come over to her side, the princess watched in a daze as she didn't come to her but instead the lizard. Toffee huffed and turned, wiping the dirt from his vestments. Kathryn rushed right up to him and when he glanced back to see what the mewni princess was doing, Toffee proceeded puffed out his chest and take a brutish hold of the female by the wrist and yanked her back with him without a word. Leaving the princess in an open field unable to react fast enough to the scene played before her.

Heaving the struggling female beside him. Toffee rarely overpowered Kathryn since there was no need. But in the urgency of leaving he did not think even twice of dragging her with such a tight grasp that his claws dug into her flesh. Struggling not with his hold but with the fact Toffee did and said nothing but stomp back into the army camp after what had just happened. Kathryn finally jolting her wrist away from him in a writhing mess she fumed far past anything tone she'd ever spoke with to him before, "How could you?!"

Tussling with anger for being left behind and despair over the harm a stupid little girl had just cause, Kathryn overwhelmed only fat tears rolled down her cheek as she looked accusingly up at him, "You could have died! Why, why would you to me?!" Toffee's dispassionate expression only giving the frenetic mewman worse waves of despair washing through her. Grabbing for any change in emotion or like he cared to reacted at all, Kathryn took one step closer as she broke down for the both of them, "She could have killed you! That little brat almost did, taking you away from me! Taking away us- You absolute fucking idiot of a-"

What reaction she did crave was not met. Lashed out the second she sobbed too much and after the display before the other monster's, Toffee finally snapped. Without thinking he struck so hard it did the trick to shut her up. Both lizard and mewman stunned into silence. A now two fingered reddish mark forming on Kathryn's cheek where Toffee's unexpected slap came from.

Fixed on one another Toffee's action did shut her up but did not stop the rolling globs of tears streaking down Kathryn's cheeks. Where it stung on her face and on his palm, Toffee turned away and left without a word and far too quickly for Kathryn to say anything. His figure disappeared behind the tents. Kathryn stunned couldn't register the real pain of the red welt on her cheek. Nor did she wait to comprehend what just happened. She turned tails and sprinted as far and as fast in the opposite direction as she could. No thought where to or what next. Letting her feet take her anywhere but there.