"So, what do you think?" Teddy rasped, gaze rolling leisurely over his companions. It was mostly directed toward Nippy, of course — The retriever was best in understanding and offering good conversation in return. He always found that her intellect was remarkable... One of the scant good things he'd come away from his rocky childhood with. He didn't always agree with the dog, but she made for one fierce fighter and conversationalist.
"Think these will be any use?" He proceeded, kneeling as he rolled the fusion cores toward himself. There must have been a dozen or so — All ripe for the taking. A pretty sight for sore eyes.
"If scavs haven't picked 'em up yet, how are we sure they're any good?" Nippy huffed. "Place like this? Out in the open? Teds, I don't know nothin' about this stuff, but the place reeks."
A frustrated sigh exited impatient lips as he clutched one of the cores, looking it over. "They look fine. Can't you smell the power in them or something?"
Nippy stared at him, deadpan, like he was stupid. And he was. "No, you asshead."
Teddy scowled. "I could skin you alive, dog."
Nippy knew that bluff. She'd heard it a thousand times over, and it never got old. She always responded the same way too,
"Yeah, but you won't," She chimed, sitting to scratch at an ear with her hind paw. "Listen... If ya need 'em so bad, just take 'em. You're always so worried about carryin' too much, but if they work, they work. If they don't, they don't. Don't gotta be such a big deal, Teds."
Teddy's brows kept furrowed, tense as always. He had hoped the cores would be enough of a basic power source to help run a few wiring experiments... But carrying around so many at once was a risk if they had incurred enough damage to cause a leak.
It was a risk he had to take.
Silently, and grouchily, he kept tight-lipped as he began piling the items carefully into his bag.
