Friend-Shaped

He got his answer quickly enough, his dad telling him that the word he was looking for was dovleac. He gasped with excitement and grinned, his tail wagging eagerly at the new Carpathian word. "That's perfect!" he exclaimed before turning back to his new friend with a resolute nod. "Your name is Dovleac now, okay? We're going to be really good friends, Dovleac, just you wait!" Looking back to his father with a big smile and bounding over to him to nuzzle his shoulder, he said, "Thanks, dad!" With that he went back to Dovleac to collect his new companion, nudging the apathetic capybara toward the castle. "Come on, Dovleac! I'll show you where my room is and make a bed for you! Then we can start gathering pumpkin seeds for your garden!" He was going to have a lot of work ahead of him to get this pumpkin patch going for his friend, but it'd be worth it. As he started trotting off toward the castle the capybara gave Art a long, disinterested look before turning to follow after Solaire at a quick lope to catch up with him.

"Solaire Carpathius"