Sufferin' snorkelblatz!

He could see the boy calculating in his mind as the words about taking him home sunk in. There was that flicker of ‘I don’t wanna’ before a light dawned and the boy agreed. Regulus chuckled softly as he led the way, taking in the name and nodding.

The question regarding the word he’d spoken was answered readily. Regulus enjoyed teaching, and so he grinned down at the boy, “It means ‘Child’ in the Old Tongue. Most of my family speak it fluently. Would you like to learn a few words?”

His tail waved happily at the thought of teaching a young mind what he knew as he kept an even speed, even if the gait was a rump hopping kind of thing.