Jinan was uncertain at first, but she seemed nice. It reminded him of his own sister a little smile coming onto his maw as she further lowered herself to the ground looking at him with those bright violet eyes that showed nothing but softness within. He was fine, he was home this was his extended family of sorts he supposed and Tuari trusted the others, why shouldn’t he? Perhaps a flawed argument in many cases, something that very much could come back to hurt him someday. For now though his puppy innocence was left untried and unchecked by life lessons that not all wolves are nice. Of course he had been told and warned, but she was a pack wolf, surely kind and nice in all ways and that allowed him to feel comfortable enough to open up and sprawl himself in a play bow as well tilting his head side to side observing her while his useless little ears flopped about not staying perked or alert as they couldn’t help him anyway.

She crawls forward and the young boy holds his ground watching as she moves feeling the leaves shift in his paws as she does so. As Reian mirrors his movements the little boy gives a bounce of glee and an overly loud yap of childish excitement. Perhaps he would never learn to speak properly, but he got by with what his sister had shown him in lipping words in her own mute world. Her muteness and his deafness never mattered, she could mouth the words and he could read them, it was some strange synergy the siblings all shared, deaf or not, he understood that much. As she mouthed his name he stopped, his green eyes focused on her lips as she slowly mouthed, his name? How did she know his name? Was he well known? He tilted his head a little confused before focusing on her maw again as she mouthed some unknown word he could only assume was her name.

”Reeeunnnn.” He says clumsily drawling out the syllables as she has before, before tilting his head trying to get confirmation from her if he did it right. ”Jinan." He says, he knows his name, he had learned that with much encouraging from his sister, giving a little nod. ”Tuari." It didn’t come out as a question, just a single word but the tilting of his head denoted some of his confusion. He couldn’t speak much, he understood lip reading and he knew some things. His sister’s name, brothers’ names and mom and dad. That was about the extent of his vocabulary with everything else haphazard and clumsy. He could mouth things well though thanks to his sister talking to him in their own silent way, but he knew most were not like him, many could hear and speak and he liked to learn more. Tuari could only do so much not able to speak herself with help from others it might have been possible for him to speak better than he did.

His tail waved again sitting up now and still looking at her hoping for more his little golden cheeks raised in a light smile. He liked trying to talk, it usually led to lots of praise, he just… wasn’t all that good at it. He hoped she was aware of this, he wasn’t sure that she was slowing her speech down for him or what it was. She would learn from him just as much as he from her in due time. Perhaps their time of fun would turn into a time of learning for the both of them.