”Clearly they are afraid of a dashingly powerful male like myself!”
Red stared at Fang for a few long seconds, watching him go through the motions of realizing his words and shaking his head at them. She continued staring for a few more seconds, and then quite suddenly burst into giggles, which was an odd thing for her to do. She didn’t normally giggle. She didn’t normally laugh, either. Most often, her show of amusement was a wag of the tail or a smile. Giggles were rather unusual. However, she found that once she started, she couldn’t stop. She tried in vain to catch her breath, but with every intake of air, another fit of the giggles would burst forth from her and cause to lose all the oxygen she had just sucked in.
She looked briefly at Fang, trying to convey with her eyes that she was sorry for laughing so much. Her stomach began to hurt from it, and that was when she decided she’d had enough. She sucked in a big breath and held it for a moment or two, and then slowly let it out. By the time she was done blowing the air from her chest, her giggles had receded completely and she was back to a relatively normal state of being.
Her ears went back against her head, tail remaining low, but wagging slightly, to convey the meaning: Sorry. Wasn’t laughing at you. Don’t know why I was laughing.
Awkwardly, she cleared her throat. Hopefully, he’d understand and wouldn’t be offended at her sudden outburst. After all, it had surprised her just as much as it had probably surprised him.