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Good lord this kid was short-tempered and grumpy. Fin's lips twitched with amusement that she did her best to stifle, knowing it would probably just irritate him even more. Her ears flattened when he called her barf-face, even though that too made her want to laugh. She refrained from sharing her name - after all, if he wasn't going to offer his then why should she? Plus, not pushing the name exchange gave her a reason to keep calling him 'Small Pox', which just tickled the crap out of her fancy. "At least mine was clever..." she retorted quietly as the conversation began to reel in a different direction.

So he fancied himself a bear-biter first class, eh? Fin cast him a skeptical look. She had no doubt in her mind that this little ruffian didn't actually have a reputation of any sort. Even Fin's name wasn't likely to spark any recognition in Teekon's bear population, not unless it was one of the bears she had tangled with specifically. That was something they could set to changing, though... Ohhhh the ideas that began to fly through Finley's head....

Suddenly, the youngster called out to someone over his shoulder, snapping Fin out of her daydream and back to attention. She peered inquisitively into the woods in the boy's wake and sniffled eagerly at the air. Finding nothing, she looked back at the freckled pup. "Were you travelling with someone?" she asked, taking another step towards him and straining forward with her neck to continue her searching sniffs.