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His eyes brightened at the confirmation that she was going to fight the bear, and just didn’t want to get caught up in close quarters. He wanted in, and she offered him a way. All he had to do was poke it. He grinned, cheeky and ready for trouble as he stepped carefully away from her. Heading to the bear.

She wanted to get a good angle on it, right? So he made sure to put himself in a position that when the bear woke up, it would come at him away from the caves. Because it was definitely going to come at him. He stepped quietly up to the bear's butt, looking over at Mercy, he extended his claw, raised his paw so that she could see it, and jabbed it right on the bear's butt. Its reaction was loud and immediate. It roared, and began to unfurl itself from its sleeping position.

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