He had arrived just in the nick of time, it seemed! He had lunged for the girl when he thought she was too close and had he hesitated just a second she would have fallen into the river and been swept away in the freezing current. He barely snagged the end of her tail as it was, but luckily his teeth found their mark and with no small amount of effort, Scorpius managed to pull the endangered girl away from the rushing, sub-zero waters and onto the safe bank. He hesitated for a moment then, as though he was unsure what to do afterwards, her tail still in his mouth, though he did let go once the girl moved away and sat down. He waited a moment longer before saying anything, studying the russet pup with his deep eyes.
“Whoa... That was so cool! I think I have some of your fur in my teeth.”
There was something about her that he liked instantly. Though Scorpius could not quite peg it himself, what he liked was her demeanor. She had been frightened and he saved her life, and then for some reason the fellow pup crouched as though she was unsure about something. Scorpius could not help but feel that she was crouching before him, a gesture that spoke to his basic instincts and boosted his domineering ego. He grinned and stood straight and tall – as tall as he could stand on his short legs – his tail raised in pride. Juju often acted the same way, and that was why he liked his cousin so much, too.
Though it was not long until the girl began to regain her composure. Perhaps she was not crouching to him or his superiority, but had just been regrouping? The smoke-pelt pup let out a short huff, though did not show too much irritation on his face. After all, he was not deeply learned in these matters and was only going off of his basic instincts. For a split second he thought he would pounce on her while she squatted – not out of meanness or hatred, but just because he wanted to – but he did not, and in a moment she seemed to have overcome whatever had worried her and began to perk up.
When the girl spoke she seemed to have some kind of impediment. Scorpius was not the most eloquent of pups, either, but he still cocked his head and twitched an ear at her. He nodded and his tongue lolled out of the side of his grin for a second before he took a step closer to her.
“Yeah, no problem,” he seemed to be gloating a bit. “You’d have been ice cubes in seconds if you fell in. My name’s Scorpius. Who are you?”
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