The teasing in his tone draws her gaze back to his face and she frowns, her tail whisking hastily over her rump in agitation.
"Well I don't," she clarifies, slightly agitated.
"I live close to here. I wasn't lying," she affirms, even though he hadn't come out and accused her. His admiration of the area also helps to pacify her and she draws in a breath but says nothing else, unwilling to repeat her offer.
The boy then goes on to speak of how stinky wolves are, and Vex is left to contemplate this new information. Strangely, it had a hard time fitting into her limited understanding of the world at large. Her mother couldn't stand stinky things, which should mean that she didn't like the Wolf King, but she did like the wolf king, which meant that he couldn't be stinky.
"I didn't say you smelled bad," she protested instead, the flush rising to her cheeks.
"The water you fell in smelled bad... and probably the mud." All the fish poop was in the bottom of the pools, her mother had told her, which was why they had always bathed in the falls itself. Vex sometimes wondered if there were fish above the falls, but she had never dared to ask her mother either.
"I thought you were a rock the first time I saw you."
She lapsed into silence for a moment, her gaze flicking surreptitiously toward him.
"So you've seen a wolf then? Are they scary?"
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