Building courage

Mojito was pretty sure his heart stopped, sure felt like it anyways when a loud "boo" sounded behind him and someone larger than himself jumped out at him. Mojito practically fell over, and maybe considering the goat horns poking from his head he should have, but instead, he stumbled over his own paws, instinct kicking in and driving him to skitter away from the startling noise as quickly as possible. It was only after he got control of his limbs again that he really stopped to observe the thing that had startled him.

A woman, close to his mother's age... maybe a bit older? An impressive pair of twisting horns rising from her head, so unlike any he'd seen before. But there was something familiar about her scent, and her coloration. But he shook that nagging feeling off to glare up at her.

"That wasn't funny!" He said, his voice as stern as he could make it, though it broke in true adolescent fashion. Was he doomed to be harassed wherever he went? Or was this adult just behaving childishly for the fun of it? He hadn't jumped out to scare any of his siblings in seasons and frankly would have assumed a woman of this wolf's age would have been too old for something like this.

"Speech!"

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