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Luckily Wraen glossed over the moment of weirdness too instead of further lingering on it. Eljay was used to being weird all the time, but somehow he never got used to it. Anyway, luckily Wraen stopped talking about it after one confused 'oh' and Eljay could breathe easily again as they shifted onto names, a much easier-going subject.

Eljay smiled softly when Wraen said that Elwood was a nice person. He was pretty happy and felt blessed to have the nicest parents in the world. In that sense, Eljay was a bit like a proud mother at times, except the other way around. His parents were decidedly some of the very best people in the world. Yeah, daddy's super nice, he agreed with a proud smile. He only realised his childlike phrasing moments later (Eljay was still trying to get rid of talking like he was half a year old instead of almost 4) but decided to just gloss over it and hopefully she wouldn't notice it as much.

At the mention of Liffey, Eljay's tail waved gently. He missed Liffey; it'd been forever since he had seen her, and he was sad that she had chosen to leave. But he had left the pack too when he was 2 years old, so he also understood her need to be somewhere else for a while. Eljay always sorta hoped that she'd return some day. Yeah, Liffey's my sister. She's pretty nice, too, he said with a smile. Maybe not as nice as mommy and daddy, but quite nice. Especially compared to Tegan. Eljay found himself feeling guilty about thinking of Tegan as less-nice and using him as a comparison like that, but he was glad he at least hadn't said it out loud.