[There's no one else's lead but Kratos's for Yuan to take. He catches what Kratos is doing for his siblings -- mostly -- and suspects that the same is to be done with Cressida.]

[Almost automatically, Yuan strokes her hair again when she leans, even as he's reaching with his other hand to put the fishcake into her grasp. He's going to have to eat around her somehow. ... he's not crossing that bridge yet.]

Even when brushed and conditioned properly?

[Are they breeding for hair strength, as well? But he does know, or vaguely recalls, that many children don't like to sit still for grooming. Perhaps that's it. ...Then again, Kratos's -- floof -- seems much the same.]