This is how you defend! ... Right?

He saw the skepticism on the woman's face as he questioned her, but she did eventually let him go and he flexed his jaw a few times as it settled back into its normal place again. He rolled back to his paws, giving his brown and tan coat a quick shake before his gaze turned back to her again with a clear curiosity, his ravenous desire to learn shining through. She explained that she had used pressure points to incapacitate him and his head tilted slightly to the side at the statement. "Pressure points..." he muttered softly, mostly to himself. He had never heard of that before, but it was easy to pick out what she meant with context clues. Certain points on a body that did something when you put pressure on them. Now it made sense why she hit or targeted such specific spots. He wondered if his mom or dad knew about that kind of stuff. Maybe he'd get to teach them something this time!

He immediately perked up when she mentioned that she was a healer, but he bit his tongue so that he wouldn't interrupt her explanation. He had already attacked her unnecessarily, he figured he probably should avoid being rude on top of it. Her explanation of how she used the vital points she had learned in her healing to aid her in her fighting felt like a huge revelation for the boy, his eyes widening at the thought. Of course! Why hadn't he thought of that?! They had always felt kind of separate in his mind with his healing lessons coming from his dad and fighting lessons coming from his mom, but they didn't have to be independent at all. Now that he was thinking about it he felt pretty dumb for not making that connection sooner, but this was a pretty memorable way to learn at least.

His moment of learning and realization was cut slightly short though as the woman questioned him again about why he had attacked her, making his ears flick back guiltily. "Oh! I um... I thought you were gonna try and cross our border so I was going to stop you and defend the pack," he explained, giving her an apologetic grin. "So uh... sorry about that! But thanks for the lesson! I'm a healer too! Well, I'm learning to be, anyway. My dad says I'm learning really fast! Not um... not about the fighting stuff though... obviously."

WC: 411
Total: 2575 / 2500

"Dorian"