His arms, which had been resting limply at his sides, hugged himself as the a teacher suddenly showed up. The boy's hood slipped off of his head, to reveal two rather large wolf ears, his vertical pupils shrinking as he realized how much of himself was exposed. Ivo moved back and forth, trying to hide both his his ears and tail, seemingly at the same time and being rather unsuccessful. Finally, Ivo gave up, letting his ears droop a little bit, both hands holding onto his furry tail. The teacher was trying to welcome him and saying Ivo shouldn't be ashamed, and at that moment he realized that maybe hoping for a teacher hadn't been such a good idea after all.

It must have been so, what the teacher had said. Lots of different kinds of 'monsters' fluttered about, not trying to mask and hide under a human persona whatsoever. It wasn't at all that Ivo was ashamed of what he was... Just his imperfection and the lack of ability to hide what he was in the first place. Ivo wasn't yet even the age of the past warriors from his pack who usually stayed in this quarter shift form, he was supposed to stay in his human form at all times, yet the boy couldn't do anything in his power to shift his assorted appendages. Ivo looked even more ashamed of himself, but his voice became louder and louder as he tried to fix Ryoshi's wrong conclusion.

[b][color=silver]"M-Mister! I am not at all ashamed in what I am! As a Ebonvuk wolf, I take pride as pureblood descended from the chief's main family! It is just... improper for a pup such as myself to show my own lineage... But I can't shift with my own power..."[/color][/b] While he had met the teacher's eye when he made his outburst, when talking of his imperfection, Ivo's eyes slipped to the ground.

[@Polaris North]