Moonspear your subaru is ugly

The misunderstanding soon went both ways. Kindle assumed at once that she was being territorial, and that he was not welcome even this close. This made him feel territorial in turn — he felt that he was in a more dominant position than her, and thought she ought to be more deferential.

"Waiting for you to get over here," he replied, forcefully friendly. When he wagged his tail to soften the blow, it was almost parallel with his body, flagging his (assumed) social standing.

"Europia, right?" he named her. "I'm Kindle. We didn't meet under the best circumstances, last time."

Better to get the elephant in the room out of the way. He felt it wasn't his place to defend or apologize for Kinusi, nor that he'd done anything wrong in the encounter — but he hoped that acknowledging the discomfort would help them move past it.

"So I thought we ought to fix that. Maybe with a little scouting trip. You can't have seen all of the mountain, yet. And, to be honest, neither have I."