Blink.

She wasn't hiding because it wasn't safe. She was hiding because her daddy told her to hide.

He also told her to be silent. She probably shouldn't have told Sarah her name.

"So?"

She stops staring and drops her gaze to her daddy again. Sorry, daddy.

Sarah follows Ameron's gaze. Oh shit. How do I explain this? She swallows.

"Your daddy's going to be all right, but he's going to have to go away for a little while."

Some skepticism registers on Ame's face, though it is hard to tell even for her, at which part of that statement it is directed. Ame is not in any way conceptualizing this situation as hero-vs-criminal. To her it is a simple matter of unfamiliar adults being violent at her familiar adult.

They do not get to say if her daddy is okay, and they don't get to say where her daddy goes. Ame categorically does not recognize their authority.

Daddy isn't able to speak for himself right now, though, and Ame doesn't feel like trying to make the violent strangers understand if they don't already.

"Why?" she asks, simply.

Because he's a violent ganglord, you poor little broken girl. Because he kills people and runs drugs and takes protection money. Because you deserve better than to be raised by him.

"Because he hurt a lot of people, and broke the law in other ways too, so we had to stop him, and the PRT has to take him away."

Ame doesn't necessarily doubt the fact of what she is being told, but one thing she does understand very well even at her age is that people do things for reasons and she rather trusts her daddy's reasons over these capes'. This sentiment is obvious on her smol face.