Morningside Cuesta can't touch this

Kieran watched as the other looked at him, then perked his ears forward as she spoke. The words she said made the pup give a barely audible hmpff as a small smile crossed his face. She had humour, at least. 

Then she asked a question, and the agouti boy shrugged his shoulders. He had had far too many failed homes before, and currently this one did not yet feel any different. It would probably fail him like the others had. Maybe one day he would come to love this land, but for now he was defensive and not willing to settle. "Doesn't feel like home yet..." He replied as a hint of sadness was evident in his tone of voice - or perhaps it was his eyes. He thought back briefly to his most recent home, where his mother's grave still lay. Boy how he missed her.