Dogs. Nier’s never pet a dog in her life, let alone one with a… strange device for a head. Putting that aside, she’s found that most animals don’t like her very much, for reasons she can’t possibly know. Something tells her these dogs would be even less able to communicate that.
“I don’t see why not, Narancia… They wouldn’t be able to bite you or anything, even, so it’s probably safe…” She will, however, remain a respectable distance away.
“Screens…” she repeats. It’s not a word she’s familiar with. “So that’s what they are… I’ve never seen things like that before. N-not the dogs, I mean, the things on their heads…”
He would know far more than her, wouldn’t he? “Narancia, w-what’s Affronted Birds…?”
“mm...” he nods along with her validation, giving the dog and its mechanism another reckoning. a quick glance concluded that there was no maw indeed. nier’s logic, then, was sound enough. he almost wondered why something so obvious had not occurred to him before. the creature seemed like any other dog, quadrupedal and perfectly fluffy from its neck down, but out of sorts for all its easygoing behavior. it was a cartoonish enough eyeful that commercial tycoons could have branded as the latest battery-operated fad.
knowing the city, maybe he will pet the thing when he feels more daring.
“yeah,” narancia replies, in the meantime, “like, uh, the phones they gave us... those have screens.” to speak of the city, it seemed to whisk all types and times into its ranks. that much is why he takes her lack of knowledge in stride, neighborly filling in the blanks where he is able. “it’s just something that shows you a moving picture. sometimes you can touch it to make things move. like affronted birds! see, it’s a game you play on a screen.”
he cants his head. “what kinda place didja come from, nier? if you’re not used to this stuff, a lot of things around here must be confusing as fuck.”
