"Real family, if you ain't born with it, is somethin' that you have to find or make." Picking up her skirts a little so that she doesn't tread on them, she starts to move on a little bit if only because there's only so long one can stay around in one place. The guards might circle around anyway.

"But you usually need a place to stay at while you're doing that." She glances back down at him. "Besides, you ever ask why he ran off on you?"