Vivian's mind was still struggling to process everything that just happened in the last instant… and as she finally understood the implications… this Squeek had no intention of letting her go… she wouldn't be punished… her pulse immediately relaxed, and she slowly eased into a giggle about this Squeek brazenly yelling at Beldam. The tiny squeek briskly walking carrying her immediately exclaimed, "I just KNEW your giggle would be the most beautiful noise ever!" and kissed her hard on her left dimple this time, adding, "Goodness GRACIOUS! Your dimples are so beautiful as well! I do not understand at all how anyone could even think of being mean to you, sweetie."

Vivian's face couldn't help but burst into a wide smile after hearing that. She was admittedly still a little confused about how this wonderful Squeek was going to get the grand prize out of the fortress, given that she had to immediately escape, but Vivian decided to push those worries to the side for now, and start talking. "Um so… Thank you so much.. Just for everything these past few minutes… I don't believe I know your name. I'm Vivian."

The Squeek replied "ohai Viv-cutie, I'm Ms. Mowz! It's looking like we might be together for a while so why don't we chit-chat some and get to know each other ^_^ GOSH your smile is somehow even more beautiful than I was expecting. " Just… the joy that hearing her enthusiastic voice brought to Vivian… and the kindness Ms. Mowz had shown her… She decided she had to apologize for something that was eating at her mind…

"I'm… I'm sorry…" Vivian said shyly. Ms Mowz noticed that she really apologized a lot… but understood that it likely had a lot to do with her low self-esteem, which was almost certainly caused by abuse at the fortress. She decided that sassing her about that would be unproductive, and that it would be much better to lift her up emotionally as she already was physically. She simply asked, "Why are you apologizing, my kind-hearted shadow siren?" Vivian was relieved that Ms. Mowz didn't seem to really be aware of Vivian doing anything wrong, but she said "You mentioned wanting the grand prize… but your kind heart got the better of you and you decided to take me instead… will you go back for it later… if you do… I feel like I owe it to you to hel—" Ms. Mowz promptly interrupted her with another kiss. She realized that she would need to treat this emotionally fragile shadow siren like a princess to the best of her ability. She told her, "You are just so kind and wonderful, what I was trying to tell you in the fortress, sweetie, is that you ARE the grand prize that I was referring to." On hearing this, Vivian's heart melted and she started crying happy tears… "Oh my goodness… you are so wonderful… Thank you so much… hearing that means the world to me…" and embraced Ms. Mowz in a hug.

As the shy shadow siren was being cradled by the tiny muscular Squeek as she was strolling to her house, Vivian knew that Ms. Mowz was not like anyone who was mean to her at all, so she decided to let her know something. *So about me… I'm rarely comfortable telling anyone this… but I am a transgender woman." Ms. Mowz responded enthusiastically, "Heck yeah! Ya know sometimes you have to experiment with gender to find what works the best for you! Myself, I'm a cis woman but I had a 5 month stint on T but decided it wasn't for me. Appreciated the insight though! Soooooo if you ever run into any medical gatekeeping bullshit and need me to heist a pharmacy just let me know. I gotchu." Vivian giggled as she thought of how Nq was very patient-first about their prescription decisions. "I think things are fine now but I'll keep that offer in mind in case I need to see a new endocrinologist~"