Dear Dad or Deer dad?

Things got weird.  One moment Fern was walking off and talking to her stoat and the next moment Rudy was staring at a deer which was definitely not the deer he’d been watching a moment ago. There was a strange feeling also and when Rudy got a good look at his paws he saw hooves instead, and his entire body tingled in a way that had him take a look at his back.  Oh – what the – Rudyard couldn’t even fathom what to think of with the change and yet the deer had spoken to him.

Looking away from the deer he spotted his own body.  Rudyard’s mind was spiraling, “Hi,” dumbly stated since it said he could speak with him.  Listening? Always listening?  What the heck had he really gotten from the firefly guy with this ‘blessing’?  A drop from the deer dad fell on Rudyard.  

Rudyard’s head jerked up, his wolf head.  It had been a dream?  Rudy’s body shivered as it felt so strange.  Well, the body felt perfectly normal but something inside of him felt spooky?  It had to be a dream.  Had to be.
Rudy got up and made his way to where Fern was, with something funny on her feet and a funny-lookin thing she was scratching herself with. “What’s with those things? Kinda weird looking.  Those are what you got from the firefly guy?”

"Rudyard"