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'Oh.' It clicked then, after the boy explained it. He had been mean first. Was it cause he said he looked like a rabbit? He hadn't said anything mean about it though, but he supposed being called a prey animal when you were a wolf was sorta... rude. It certainly didn't make Eli feel good to be called a goat, so maybe the little man felt the same way. 'Gotcha.'
He'd apologize later, but for now, he needed to focus on cleaning the cut on the poor thing's pink-ish nose! Underneath his paw, he felt the kid squirm, struggling to get away with verbal complaints soon to come. Although those cut off too, and the agouti wolf thought he realized what he was doing then – and hadn't thought that it was uncomfortable to accidentally get a mouthful of someone else's tongue.
“Your nose is bleeding,” he muffled, his words sounding awkward and off as he tried licking and talking at the same time. Eli was never one to multitask. “Apology for being mean!”