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The boy's head tipped over sideways as he studied the great brown thing, giggling at its tongue and its dumb-looking face. It didn't really... move. Everyone else that he knew moved with their ears and tails and legs and face all the time, but this creature just stood still like a rock. But its tail and tongue moved, just not like he was used to tails and tongues moving. He thought about that while he waited for the Moo to answer his question, only to find himself immensely surprised when it finally moved and looked at him in a weird way. It was pretty scaring, even, and its head was so big! He hadn't noticed exactly how big the head was, until now. It was really really big, and now it made that same moo sound as before, but it was different, too. The boy jerked back, his neck moving as if a spring, and soon he was standing on all four again, his tail still and alert. Why was it scaring him? He had only been nice! It made him a little bit sad, even. His ears moved towards his skull as he was both taken aback and a little bit hurt at the same time, his tail between his legs.
........A distance of another few feet had been gained between them when he sprung back, and now Emwe sat down again, somehow thinking that even if it looked scary it wasn't dangerous. If it was dangerous it probably would have eaten him already, when he had been so close? Slowly the boy gave in to curiosity again, and his tail started moving in a slow wag behind him. O.k., so it didn't like it when he spoke to it. But how would he know anything if he didn't speak to it? It certainly was no fun to just sit here and look at its face, because he had already seen its face. Getting up slowly, he kept his distance as he moved around the animal, not close enough for contact, but close enough to get a good look at it. Perhaps if he didn't say anything so it wasn't annoyed, he could still understand what this thing was?
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