"It is always better to see you in your animal form. You look weird as a human" Connor said with an easy grin, "more natural for the fur." Austin liked to think he could hide his expressions behind his fur, but Connor saw through that. Of course, being able to had taken a while to do. It was other things you had to pick up on. Subtle. But Austin was his friend, so it had become
Easier and easier to read him. He nudged him, "don't worry. Girls are strange creatures" 

When Sue came over and did the fist bump, Connor said, "see, strange" he would never understand them, he thought. "Anyway, even without the fur you were the last of us standing"