Porcupine Ridge things my heart used to know

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In a brief moment of misunderstanding, her co-rank made a move that held dominance. It mostly held offense, rather than anger, and when he came to a realization that it was not meant to offend; his expression turned mostly to normal. It still seemed that there was hurt, and the girl gave him a gentle nudge to the shoulder, issuing a whine in hopes to reassure him. It was hard for him to understand the situation, as her body language kind of mismatched her words, but Jhala did her best to help him at least understand that everything was okay. Drawing her muzzle away from his shoulder, she turned back to Diane. Jhala sat where she stood and gave a yip to the reddish male, her tail thumping behind her as she silently requested he sit with them.

"Didn't expect it?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. It wasn't condescending, just a bit shocked. "I'm assuming you've been told- he doesn't understand speech," she said, giving the male a kind smile as she glanced towards him. "He communicates with touch and stuff," she informed, the 'and stuff' referring mostly to the noises that wolves made to communicate. But that was a bit rude to infer, as for the most part she was new and probably had never met him face to face- how was she to really know how he communicated?

"Afflicted?" she then questioned, but the girl seemed to move past it quickly, claiming that she just needed to get used to it. Jhala asked no more, and instead just shrugged. 

"It's no prob," the girl replied shaking her head. "Just do what you're supposed to, you shouldn't have any problems," she shrugged, which wasn't really the best advice to someone who may have just had a panic attack. "I mean everyone's real nice here... I can introduce you to my friend Anwyl later," she then offered, her tail wagging. 

The girl then gazed to the other beta curiously, her amber eyes finding his expression to see how he was reacting. They were equals now- couldn't really challenge one another- could she find his eyes directly? The girl wasn't sure, and instead avoided it as she usually would. She gave him another friendly whine, her tail still thumping. Was he okay? He obviously didn't understand what they were saying, and he might've been a little confused- it was kind of cruel of them really. But Jhala fought to keep him at least involved, trying to stretch her focus and attention to them both.

The two definitely were not romantically involved, Jhala was honestly far more interested in her pale friend Anwyl. Porcupine Ridge did work in 'power couples' though, and the black and white yearling hadn't really thought that part of it through- still hadn't.