Since an encounter with
stuffed toys under a tree, there've been a number of animals wandering around the Nexus. One of them is a very large white dog with only one blue eye. The other is scarred and missing. It's hard to say what kind of dog it is, something mixed with alsatian and maybe even a little wolf, with long grey claws. This could be a
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However, it was the holiday season, and Victor was a compassionate individual. She took one look at the dog and decided it needed a sandwich. She scooted forward tentatively, all the while sending don't-eat-my-face-off brainwaves out into the multiverse.
And out from the depths of her purse rose a chicken sandwich! It did not, of course, rise on its own. It had help from Victor's hand.
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When the dog sees her it lifts it's head. The ears go up, the tail thumps a couple times, and it gives her one lone white puppy-dog eye. The dog is very happy to see her, almost as if it recognizes her. When she offers the sandwich he gets up quickly (standing, his head is on a level with hers if she crouches down) and trots over happily.
Hopefully she won't be too intimidated by all this.
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She set the sandwich on the ground in front of the dog.
And then to diminish her nervousness, she tried to talk to the dog. After all: Nexus. She explained so many of her actions with 'After all: Nexus' nowadays. "Hi. I'm Victor."
((And now I sleep! I'll be around at intervals once I unsleep!))
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((Have good dreams! I should go sleep myself.))
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The way he approached eating wasn't dogish at all, and it gave Victor the idea that maybe the dog wasn't a dog at all. In fact... the one eye, the white coat, and the lack of barking all pointed to him being one person. Still, she wasn't sure. "I know you, yeah?"
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She rummaged in her bag for a plastic bowl and a bottle of water. She generally used it for painting but it was clean, if somewhat flimsy. "Can I get you anything, Silens?"
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This is his first LOL.
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Now, any other dog Victor would scoot away from. Instead she gave him a very gentle scratch between his ears. "It'll pass. I turned into a magpie once, made a nest on top of the sign. It might take some time, but it'll pass."
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When he's done he lays down and rests his head on her leg and looks up at her with the one blue eye. He actually thinks he's less intimidating this way.
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Since he seemed to like the scratching, she kept it up, very gentle and very careful. "See? It's all okay."
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Tailwagging was good, or so she remembered from the dogs of her youth. She shifted from scratching to petting, sticking to the between-the-ears-on-top-of-the-head area because that was familiar.
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