Have eyed the doe in front of him up and down and sucked his teeth a little. "Really..? Of all the mares and stags in this swamp, it's you?"

In Harmony's golden eyes flashed. "EXCUSE ME?!"

Have shot back. "There is no excuse for you my dear! Surely there are others around who are a little more, well...more." His nose crinckled. "And you stink of animals, do you not bathe?"



The sound the mare made might make more meek kin quake in their hooves but Have was unphased. He leveled her with a unimpressed stare waiting for her little fit to be over.

"Finished?"

He didn't expect an ermine to fling herself into his face with a scream of a high enough pitch that only other animals would hear. In Harmony clung to I Have Standards face, gnashing her teeth, trying to bite at any bit of him that she could. Have thrashed around, trying to toss Harmony off before she clawed up his perfect face.

"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU SMELLY LITTLE RAT!" he shouted. Harmony managed to sink her teeth into his ear and draw blood, but since she was no longer gripping his skin with her claws, he was able to fling her off with a sharp head shake.

In Harmony did a back flip in the air, twisting her body around to land on her feet. What she did next was the most undignified thing she'd ever done as she lifted her tail and backed up against his right back leg.

"AH!" Standards jumped away, shaking his back leg, a look of disgust on his face.

"I hope you get what you deserve!" her voice hissed through his mind.

Before I Have Standards could open his mouth to retort, In Harmony had vanished back into the swamp where she fumed about the zikwa's audacity and hoped that her "blessing" would some day put him in his place.