How about the time I tried to have a talking dog play interpreter for a phantom dog in a firehouse?
[It sounds insane, but he's really not making it up, he promises! Even a hollow chuckle is something, at least. She's always been good at hiding what she's thinking, though. John isn't really sure how to take it, just at the moment, other than at face value.]
I dunno. You seem to be good at mid-life career shifts. [Oh. John clamps down. That was... bad. He hadn't meant it to be a dig, but it is, an old resentment wrapped up and held there in the back of his mind, waiting to come out.
She's here. She's here and she's alive and she's real. It doesn't matter what came before. John clears his throat.]
That's about how most of them look, yeah. Some are nicer than others. A few have even got hot water. There's a precious thing.
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[It sounds insane, but he's really not making it up, he promises! Even a hollow chuckle is something, at least. She's always been good at hiding what she's thinking, though. John isn't really sure how to take it, just at the moment, other than at face value.]
I dunno. You seem to be good at mid-life career shifts. [Oh. John clamps down. That was... bad. He hadn't meant it to be a dig, but it is, an old resentment wrapped up and held there in the back of his mind, waiting to come out.
She's here. She's here and she's alive and she's real. It doesn't matter what came before. John clears his throat.]
That's about how most of them look, yeah. Some are nicer than others. A few have even got hot water. There's a precious thing.