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[grandstanding]

Who: The Heron crew + visitors
Broadcast: nope
Action: The Heron
When: August

[As the ship drifts on, what are you up to this month, Herons?]

Comments

[poisoninmypocket]

[Monty mulls that over, trying to think of a compromise.]

Is there any way you could teach them to be more like foxes again without being aggressive? Perhaps undo some of the conditioning?

[aigue]

I don't know. They've been selectively bred for who knows how long....

[But it's worth trying, isn't it? It's all she can do right now.]

I might as well try, though.

[poisoninmypocket]

I'll help, if I can. You're free to teach them how to pester a human properly with me.

[Yes, he's offering himself for nips and snarls, but it's a small price to pay if it will keep Renard from tangling with Wrath.

[aigue]

Really? You're sure you'd be okay with that?

[Because she can't imagine any human being able to stand an entire skulk of foxes getting bitey.]

[poisoninmypocket]

If you could keep it to under five after me at a time, that would make things more manageable, but I think I can handle foxes biting me.

[aigue]

[She chuckles.] They're smaller than I am, at least.

[poisoninmypocket]

Praise god! I might have fingers by the end of this. [Fingers that he uses to pinch her bottom lightly, just to make her twitch.] What would you be teaching them, then? Just to bite at people who get too friendly? How to hunt?

[aigue]

[She jumps, reaching down to smack his hand lightly with an amused grin.] How to be cautious of strangers, for starters. Being friendly towards humans got you killed in my time.

[poisoninmypocket]

[He shifts to stroking her thigh after being smacked. Monty wrinkles his nose at her.]

Doesn't your time span 900 years? O wise daughter of the fields and fens.

[aigue]

[Relaxing, she hums lightly.]

Humans have really never been fans of foxes, unfortunately.

[poisoninmypocket]

And yet, the see fit to make pets of them?

[That doesn't entirely follow.]

[aigue]

That is a recent change. Only the last few decades, and as far as I can tell most if them still dislike us.

On the one hand, humans breeding foxes to be pets. On the other, still making a sport out of hunting us down.