@fancycoatpossum
last time on: birds were rescued and nobody fell to their deaths
this time: sam makes a friend!
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Sam comes up with a half-dozen reasons why this isn’t so bad as he hurries home, Ruby thumping along beside him, each one less convincing to his own ears that the last -- it’s a very small dog, it’s really a puppy, which is a different thing altogether, and it’s hurt; a badly hurt very small not-yet-dog-sized dog is basically the same thing as no dog at all -- but none of them have really convinced him by the time the lighthouse is in view.
The dog is badly hurt, though, its eyes glazed over with pain, whimpering faintly every time Sam jostles it. “Sorry,” he murmurs to the dog, wincing; “sorry,” he adds fervently towards the lighthouse. “It really will be only for a couple of days,” he adds, like talking to himself will somehow make it less bad that he’s bringing a dog of any variety home with him.
