Nova Peak Mind,

He is basically a wolf racist - he thinks blue eyes are husky eyes and patterning is for dogs

The odd wolf bowed. Like he did.
Taikon rose. One ear turned sideways. This had never happened before. Of all the people he had met on his travels, not one bowed in the way of the Farukan kingdom. His interest piqued, he nodded when she introduced herself. Same, he said calmly. She confused him with the combination of her strange appearance and familiar mannerisms. None of it made sense to him.
My friend Takiyok convinced me to come; I was at Whitebark Stream before. He explained it in the shortest form of the story he could tell. She didn't need to know the details; they would probably bore a stranger. And you? He tilted his head slightly, wondering where the strange one had come from.