Sleepy Fox Hollow Must be the way you whisper.

His posturing and his flashing teeth cut through whatever challenge the woman was offering and she backed down easily enough, although the whole situation left Mou feeling on-edge and agitated. He did not relax within her proximity and would not do so for some time; it would take some focus to do so, and his entirety was locked upon the grizzled woman. Even though she backed down and began to speak Mou watched her, listened intently, waiting for a trick or something - instead there came questions and (what he took to be) an insult, earning a small nip at the air with his front teeth.

You're practically a corpse, snap! His tail lashed at his hips. He took a defiant step in to her space (as if to crowd her back, or pressure her to get out of his space beyond the submission of her posture) and then as he took a breath, he opened his mouth to speak something snide in return, and wheezed - but then managed to articulate, Leaf me 'lone, which took him by complete surprise.