strange places

Elwood's eyes widened to the size of saucers as the female looked up at him and proceeded to scream bloody murder. He could pretty much see all the way down her throat, her mouth was so open, and he took a tentative step back. This situation just got more bizarre by the second.

When he was ready to flee -- and he was fairly certain his ears were permanently damaged -- she suddenly snapped her mouth shut and blinked at him, shaking her head as if to right herself. She then spoke, her words tumbling out in a rush and getting so tangled with each other that he had to try to dissect her sentence before he responded.

"I...what? No, I wasn't following you," he said, frowning slightly. "I was just passing through, looking for a friend...anyway, I heard you yelling and laughing. You sure you're okay?" She was, perhaps, the first mentally-unstable wolf he had ever met.