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Strai only sighed at their predictable enthusiasm. At least they knew who he was, that he was prickly. It wasn’t likely to catch them by surprise any time soon. Moving on, since that seemed the only sensible course of action, he was happy to talk about rabbits. He was (predictably) hungry, and his rabbit hunt had already been disturbed by Spider’s appearance.

“But you're so short and bouncy, just like a rabbit. What if I do?” He asked, keeping his voice genuine in the hopes they would struggle to realise he was teasing. Annoyingly, Spider caught the scent of rabbit first.

Following their lead (which, yes, irked) he sniffed the air, and found the scent they had located. “Rabbits are fast. One of us should skirt around it and chase it towards the other.”

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