Ouroboros Spine Sweet as sunrise

Massaraq wagged his tail when she managed to approximate his name. He thought the elongated syllables were not quite how his brother said them but close enough was close enough. Eager to reciprocate and show off the manners that he had only just begun to get a grasp of he replied."Ajei. Good to meet you." His exuberance did not wane.

When she questioned the word for a moment he felt a moment of insecurity - did she not want friends? Perhaps this little sunrise wolf already had plenty of them and did not need them. But then he thought perhaps she simply did not know, trying to remember he said the first thing that came to mind. "errr Anaa says a friend is someone you have good times with and help in bad times." Maybe it was not Kukutux who had said this to him but someone else at some point, but many of those kinds of lessons often melded together for him.