He grinned at her attempted glare, which failed only because she didn’t appear to be entirely insulted by his playful banter. And her laughed as he leaped at her, thinking it incredibly precious that she had found herself suck. He growled lightly at her protest and in answer to her one puppy-growl. Look at this! He was playing. The though made a wide grin spread across his maw all over again. He had trained with Gaurdian, which had been a blast, but he had bruises the next day. It was nice to play when for no other purpose than having fun. His favorite thing was to have fun, too. Well, right next to rabbits anyways.

Nootau blink in surprise and raised his head and teeth away from Flicka’s paws when her soft pink tongue gave him a nice long kiss. At his age, he actually was quite interested in contact with females, so the first thought that crossed his mind was, Did I deserve that?, instead of when he was younger and the most fear disease was Girl Cooties. His ears perked forwards in confusion for half a moment before she called him out on getting infected. Nootau’s eyes widened. Not cooties! He sat up quickly with a soft sneeze and wiped a paw over his muzzle, attempting to wipe the girl-cooties off of his face.

“Fliickaa! You’ve infected me. Here - take them back,” Nootau complained happily and then attempted to wipe his muzzle across her side. Maybe he would even push her away a little, just to mess with her. In the process, and quite without realizing, he moved his tail away from Flicka and protected it for her sharp puppy teeth. She was getting close to succeeding, though, because the evil snake was running out of ideas to have its host save it from her little jaws in clever ways.