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The response he got was short and to the point. Well, what had he expected, a long and drawn-out story of how her life had been miserable since the day she was born? Not that he cared to hear her life story; any verbal response was enough for him, since it meant that she was willing to talk; he might be able to get her out of her obviously depressed state and strike up some sort of conversation.
Suddenly realizing that he had probably interrupted a private moment, he was going to offer to leave, but something told him that he should stick around. He wasn't sure how this wolf felt, but when he was sad - wait, he couldn't remember a time when he had ever been sad - he wanted a shoulder to lean on. Maybe he could be that shoulder for this wolf. Again, he didn't expect a confession of everything, he just wanted to try and make another friend, and the easiest way to do that here was to lift her spirits. He had found that canines were nearly always friendlier when they were in a good mood.
Deciding that staying on this topic might not be the best way to make her feel better, he shrugged off the depressed response. "Well," he huffed, "no use in living in the past when all it brings is sadness." It was easy for him to say, of course, since he claimed that he really had no idea what his own past had been like. "Anyway, nice little camp you've got here." He paused, trying to come up with a less direct way to have her introduce herself; she looked a bit scared of him, which he hoped would go away if he didn't seem so demancing. "What would be the name of the nice-camp-builder before me?"
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