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He stared in horror and bewilderment as Scimitar proceeded to violently attack his playmate. Relonikiv didn't understand why the Alpha was going after his larger friend and it pained him to see Scimitar's teeth snapping so dangerously close to the gray male's ear. "No..." he muttered again, his lower lip beginning to quiver.

Then his playmate snarled savagely at Scimitar, snapped at him and then lunged in Relonikiv's direction. An instinctive understanding shot through him, taking root with startling clarity. The child screamed, then dropped to the ground again. He didn't roll this time but clapped his ivory paws over his snout and hid himself. If he couldn't see the bad guy—and he understood now that's what his playmate really was—then the bad guy couldn't see him... right?