Have a Little Fun

Bold might have been a good word to describe Maverick's disposition, though he would be reluctant to call himself such. This was just him as naturally as he came, his middle of the road, his personality. He was speaking and behaving with this wolf the way he would to anyone. Okay, maybe not anyone, but to any pretty lady, that much was for sure. He knew nothing about her other than her name, a name which none of its gilding or weight impacted him in the slightest. Mav didn't know about Abraxas or Klein or Ashen any more than he knew the intimacies of the wind or the sky or the moon. If she had been hoping to impress him with her lineage, she would go wanting as the brute was a stranger to these lands. He would've have been able to tell her apart from the gods and devils.

She seemed stunned yet equally as unimpressed by him when he teased her back, sniping back at him with snide words. The navy and snow brute make another dramatic show of gasping and clutching a paw to his broad chest, batting his lashes in mock astonishment. "Oooh, you wound me, Venom! And after I so kindly complimented you and made sure I didn't kick you in the face!" He sniggered and went back to focusing on typing the rope securely in place, tugging on it to gauge his satisfaction with its stability. "I see where your name comes from now." Mav stepped back to inspect his makeshift swing with an approving smile and nodded his head. That would do! Still wearing that confident, cocky grin that only came from a lifetime of getting away with mischief, Maverick turned back to face Venom, energized eyes finding her surly sunset gaze as if she weren't leering daggers at him currently.

"Careful, Your Highness. I've heard that if you scowl too much, your face will freeze that way. And that wouldn't be a very becoming look for you. You should try smiling more. I bet it's much prettier on you." Another chuckle and then Mav looked between her and his swing, as if debating whether he wanted to continue talking to her or going for another dip again. "Am I annoying you, Miss Klein Abraxas? Or was it Abraxas Klein? I can't remember. Is one of those your middle name? Or do you have two surnames?" He'd never met a wolf with two surnames before. Seemed like a ridiculous concept to him. Either way, he continued with the question he had started to ask, "So why are you sticking around then? Cause it seems to me like you're either actually having a good time and don't wanna give me the pleasure of knowing it, or you secretly really like what you're seeing right now and you're intrigued by the mysterious handsome stranger hanging out on your doorstep but don't want to admit it."

As if to emphasize his last point, Maverick gave a comical flip of his wet tail up over his hips and sauntered with an exaggerated sway back to the tree, grinning all the while while he eagerly awaited Venom's undoubtedly pointed retort.