Fourth floor common room [Saturday afternoon]

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Aravis really should have known better than to sit out in plain sight in her pink clothes. But when one has a large puppy, one's not-so-large dorm room can seem awfully small.

She'd managed to find a ball somewhere, and was now amusing herself with tossing it across the common room and waiting for Seely to obediently bring it back.

It took longer than one might think, because he kept getting distracted by things like invisible dust monsters and his own tail.

Aravis, for her part, just kept talking to him as though he might answer. She had suspicions that he might actually be a talking Dog after that perplexing phone call yesterday.

[open for all your pink!Aravis-harassing/Seely-puppy visiting needs. :D]

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Bored and wandering, Peter ended up in the 4th floor CR. He blushed slightly remembering the phone message she'd left and entered. "Good afternoon, Tarkeena," he said. He glanced at the dog and grinned. "Did you acquire a dog? He's lovely."

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"Afternoon, Majesty," Aravis answered. She smiled a tiny bit evilly. "And do you really think so? He's a very new acquisition."

The dog in question had stopped playing and was now standing very still, his hair bristling slightly.

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"Apparently," Peter agreed, watching the dog curiously and holding out his hand to it. "He also looks like a breed we have at home, don't you think? What have you named him?

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"He does look like a breed at home, doesn't he? And I haven't named him, as he came with a name," Aravis said, watching carefully and prepared to intervene if anything too awful happened.

Seely barked at Peter and growled, stalking a tiny bit closer.

Being a puppy, he was terribly ferocious and terrifying.

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Peter looked a bit startled at the puppy's growling but knelt down, still offering his hand. "I'd say I smell like cats, but I don't imagine I do," he commented. He glanced back over at Aravis. "So may I ask a question?"

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"You already have, but yes, you may ask another," Aravis said, studying Seely, who was now considering Peter's hand thoughtfully, though he hadn't stopped growling.

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"Did you suddenly decide pink was your colour?" he asked, trying not to grin. "You were wearing all pink on Thursday in class too."

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Aravis rolled her eyes. "The idiot thought it'd be funny to dye my clothes because I put a cow in his room," she grumbled.

Seely cheered up a bit at that, wagging his tail a bit.

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Peter chuckled. "Almost a Stickbug worthy prank. Why did you put a cow in his room?"

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"He told me that chocolate comes from chocolate cows," Aravis said. "It seemed reasonable enough."

Seely had apparently noticed, once again, that he had a tail, and seemed to be trying very hard not to chase it.

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Peter grinned at the puppy and decided to make friends later. "Mind if I have a seat?" he asked her. "And I suppose it was certainly reasonable. Wherever did you find a cow though?"

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"Cedric turned my pillow into one," she said. "And by all means, sit."

She privately hoped that this meant Seely would start to behave and not do anything stupid.

It was a very, very wee hope.

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He sat on the other end of the couch from her. "A pillow into a cow? That's rather impressive," Peter said thoughtfully.

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Luke popped his head into the common room, quickly following it with the rest of him.

"Hi!" he chirped. "Who's your friend?"

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"An idiot," Aravis said as Seely went loping over to Luke. "Afternoon, Luke."

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"...an idiot, or Seely?" Luke asked, blinking as he sat down.

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"They're synonyms," she said as Seely sniffed at Luke's feet.

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Luke scritched at Seely's ears. "Does he...turn into a puppy often?" he asked carefully.

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"He's not done it before, nor mentioned it," Aravis said thoughtfully. "I'm not certain it was intentional, or how it happened."

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Luke gave her a sly smile. "It wasn't like he used to be a pillow or anything, right?"

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"I did not transform him," she said, looking sidelong at him.

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"Just checking," Luke said with another smile.

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"I wouldn't do that," Aravis said sulkily, reaching to pet Seely.

Only because she hadn't thought of it.

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"...because you hadn't thought of it?" Luke guessed.

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"No," Aravis protested. "And may I take this opportunity to say that he can understand what we're saying."

Seely wagged his tail.