[He cards fingers through her hair, rubs a hand along her back. He knows how this part goes, he's done it enough, just as baffled, just as lost in terms of whys or whats or hows. Little girls trapped between parents almost perpetually at odds learn quick how to manipulate. How to exploit. That fathers are, by and large, ultimately powerless against little girl tears, no matter how sincere they're meant. But it's a good distraction from his own search, the one he abandoned to come here. To see what had her so upset.]
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Hey. C'mon. Shhh. Start from the beginning.