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Strel laughed at her words, a sharp short bark. Ears flattened against her head. If she was going to be laughed at either way Terra might as well have told the truth. The way she'd spun it made her sound like a complete fool, tripping all over the place and unable to deal with even a simple scrap of fabric. That wasn't the case, but Terra hadn't been able to come up with something better on such short notice to explain things. Inexperienced with cloth and what people could actually do with it Terra was limited to what she could come up with: the truth, having it fall on her, or playing with it before tearing it to shreds. The last one seemed the one most likely to get her into the most trouble, and the truth was too childish for Terra to want the beta to hear, so having it fall on her was the way she went.
He poked into her explanation too, pointing out the obvious flaws. It was bad enough for Terra to know them, but the lie was so thread bare even the dauphin could spot it. She watched him walk over to the wall, touching the painting. When you put it that way, of course it sounds foolish. I'm not around fabric a lot though, remember? She watched him examine the bright colors on the wall, and her tail wagged hopefully. Perhaps she could change the subject before things got much worse. It's a nice color thing. You do the same thing with cloth, right? Make it all colorful, and turn it into clothes. She hoped by targeting his interests Terra would get him off that line of thought.
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