Stone Circle Where do you roam little duck?

Nikai wasn't very used to hearing 'no' from strangers, and he looked taken aback, neck arching backwards with a tilted head in question, and ears prodded forward curiously. Keoni would tell him no, and sometimes — though it wasn't very often needed with Nikai — Valette and Steady would tell him no, but never wolves he'd only just met. Maybe these were different because they were smaller pups. "No?" he echoed in confusion, not sure why he wasn't allowed to say hello to the pups.

The other puppy started to speak to him though, and Nikai was glad that he was already pretty good at speaking. A lot better than he and Keoni at that age, from what he remembered. "Hi Dawn 'n Sunny," he said with a wag of his tail. He remembered having been told about about Dawn and Sunny, and that they were Day's pups. Nikai had been intrigued to hear, because it meant he was no longer the smallest child around. "Your daddy is gonna be worried," he said to Sunny. " 'cause he loves you a lot, and he's probably looking for you right now." Nikai and Keoni had wandered off at times too, and that was what Nikai remembered from when he had. It didn't even occur to him that they might view him as the party pooper, because thinking of others' needs and feelings came so natural to Nikai that he thought it did to everybody else, too.