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[seer_of_god]

Leoben was beginning to think he should have named his puppy Shadow since that was pretty much all Thirteen did most of the time. Normally he didn't mind and there weren't a lot of options for Thirteen since he was his dog, but today the cylon wasn't in the mood to be relentlessly stalked by the small husky.

The reason why he wasn't had to do with something that had happened a little earlier when the puppy had brought him... well, the small dead bird that Thirteen seemed to think he was really going to like had probably been meant to be present. Being upset about it was stupid. He knew that. It wasn't like animals didn't kill other animals. It didn't even make Thirteen an evil-minded dog so much as a vaguely bad one. But even after burying the small limp feathered body, the fact that Thirteen had killed something with him nearby made the cylon feel like a bad owner.

After awhile, the plaintive whimpering from the puppy started to get to him and he stopped trudging through the sand. Ignoring the puppy for the rest of the day wasn't going to solve anything and if nothing else, at least Kara hadn't seen the dead bird.

"Okay, okay," he muttered, crouching down and scratching Thirteen behind the ears. "I'm not mad at you. Just don't do it again."