🦫? (An amusing moment featuring an animal?)
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I am really really not into writing animals, so I have to go really far back into the first thing I ever posted here, Thorns & Jasmine.
“Aska,” he called softly, listening for the dog’s quiet steps as it came closer, sitting down next to him. Its tail wagged loudly against the carpet, and then it dropped something, next to Caldyn.
“What’s that?” he asked, picking up the thing with his free hand. It was soft and squishy; a weird shape, two rather round parts sewed together, and four or five longer ones, attached to one of them. He could feel the stitches made with rough thread, more so on the round part that didn’t have long things attached to it. Most notably, that thing was slightly wet where the dog had slobbered all over it.
“Oh, that’s a stuffed toy. Aska has been playing with it for a while,” Marian explained.
“I’m so sorry. I hope it’s not broken.” Caldyn held out his hand with the toy in it, feeling so bad that he had paid no attention to what his little friend had been doing after it had returned.
“No, no, don’t worry about it. You can keep it. We were cleaning up earlier, and gathered things we wanted to get rid of anyway. It’s not in the best shape. It’s a little dog, but it’s old and the eyes and one ear fell off.”
When Aska whined questioningly, nudging Caldyn’s arm, he laughed and put the toy down next to him. “Do you hear that, you can keep it,” he said, scratching Aska’s ears. “Sounds like you, to get attached to things without eyes.”