You can hide underneath me and come out at night

Mal · (This post was last modified: October 28, 2019, 10:32 PM by Mal.)

The goon squad was also apparently really bad at sticking to who was playing Good Cop -- so bad it was gonna give him a bit of mental whiplash. The kid was just super ornery and irritating and should probably watch himself or he'd get thumped by someone who wasn't interested in actually helping people like Mal. But hey, wasn't his problem, these dudes had to deal with them! Enjoy that trouble! However with black guy becoming suddenly demanding as all hell and brown guy saying nah, it had Mal looking between the two of them with a bit of confusion. Hell if he knew who was the boss, so he defaulted to The More Reasonable One, the title which had been bestowed on the brown wolf now. Reward those who weren't being complete idiots, right?

Mal, through all of this, hadn't budged from where he'd been standing. He wasn't gonna bow (he had every right to be there) and aside from his initial growls when the kid had been alone(ish), he really hadn't been threatening physically. His words were plenty aggravating on their own, apparently. Speaking of, he kept his composure and did at least give the Now Unreasonable Guy a bit of information in his reply directed to Now More Reasonable Dude, If you do come back for a chat, you can howl for Mal. It'd probably be best for all parties if it was some day that didn't start with an intrusion, then having them be all self-righteous about owning the entire planet as a start, as Mal was so not into any of that.

Maybe on the way out they'd notice the borders they'd traipsed across. You'd think with five plus months of Mal peeing all over the place they'd have noticed something, especially since he'd become rather more adamant about keeping them checked over the last month or so. Maybe they thought his piss smelled like pine needles. Or they were just from a particularly olfactory-limited bloodline because Mal sure as hell had no idea how it was they could come charging on in and not expect to be greeted with irritation.