the grass is always greener...

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

Laurie lies upon a field of flowers, Spot chasing the butterflies, her bag with her books, her papers and her pencils emptied next to her. She'd tried to write a few lines but all she ended up with were some dry lines, which she'd ended up erasing and erasing.

"This is hard," she sighs, rolling over on her stomach, peeking through the wildflowers, watching Spot try to catch a butterfly with his mouth, but the gorgeous orange sulphur flitted away just in time. It made her laugh softly. "But I guess you're having an even harder time, huh?"

Spot trots over and nudges Laurie's head. She reaches up and scatches that one place behind his ear that he loves getting scratched.

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[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"Just the truth as I see it!" Axl wasn't sure if he could elaborate on that point without blushing himself, though, so he went for a polite almost-subject change. "How long have you had him?"

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

"About a month," she scratches Spot's muzzle, the pup making semi-purring sounds. "He's a handful though."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Since shore leave, then. "I guess that explains the colors." He paused. "Well, at least...purple and green wasn't normal for dogs where I'm from, but I don't know much about your world." You couldn't really assume anything, with a population as diverse as this one, but sometimes he caught himself about to do it anyway.

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

"He's an alien dog. The dogs back home had spots...but they were black and white and all over their bodies." Spot looks up at Axl, blinking his alien puppy eyes.

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Axl held out a hand for Spot to sniff, a bit cautiously -- Spot might've been small and harmless-looking, but that didn't mean he might not bite.

(Come to think of it, Hyenard had made a few jokes to that effect about Axl, back in the day.)

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

Spot sniffs Axl's hand, hopping off of Laurie's lap and circling the boy, still sniffing. Detective Alien Canine.

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Hopefully robot-smell wouldn't weird him out too much. Then again, maybe alien dogs would be used to that sort of stuff?

You ran into interesting questions, zipping around on an interdimensional meatship!

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

Spot comes around to the front and snifts Axl's cheek. Then...waiting...

He licks it, and yips excitedly.

"He likes you," Laurie says.

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Axl laughed. "That's a relief. I mean, I've been through way worse than a dog bite, but that doesn't mean I'd want to get bit or anything."