She couldn't help but grin as he tried to hide his face, the reflexive frown. He simply did not know what to do with himself. She had some ideas, but she also had a hunch he wouldn't be amenable. No more than he'd been to any of her other suggestions. Or strong hints. Or outright declarations of intent.
"It's stupid, right?" She made a face. "Like, technically speaking, I'm pretty sure even just an alteration in size should permanently alter my consciousness, let alone literally all of my neurobiology, but instead it's like, welp, guess I'm a dog now. And you'd think, you know, magic and stuff, I'd be able to at least talk to dogs or something. But, nope! Can't speak a language I'm not socialized in. Like that's the part that has to make sense. Magic is dumb."
It was possible that the personality she was trying to convey did not actually support strong opinions on a physical theory of mind, but, well. Some things simply could not be borne in silence. Things like human brains in tiny dog bodies.
She may as well have slapped him for how he reacted to the way she took his hand, but he didn't try to take it back. Just stared at her like she'd grown a second head. Or turned into a dog. Her nose twitched, reflexively checking that she did not suddenly have a snout. It didn't work that way, but it never hurt to check. She was quite pleased to have him leading her by the hand, firstly because it was cute and secondly because it was intimate. If he didn't trust her enough to act intimate, she'd act intimate until she'd tricked him into trusting her.
(It was surprising how often that worked.)
It was disappointing when he let her go, and she didn't bother trying to hide it. "Thank you," she called after him as he retreated, though she did not follow. She waited until he'd closed the door, and another moment longer. Then she meandered back to the kitchen, because she still had half a pan of bacon and she wasn't letting it go to waste. She'd never actually been the biggest fan of most meat products before. Her favorite foods were cucumbers and plain yogurt. Now, suddenly, she just loved dead pigs in all their forms. Weird. In an attempt to be helpful, and with no understanding of how cast iron pans worked, she stuck the pan in the sink and covered it in dish soap.
Yup. So helpful. Downright domestic. Fortunately for Grayson, she was not feeling so helpful as to try scrubbing it. But she did raid his cupboards and pantry until she found a snack that was to her liking, and nabbed a beer from the back of the fridge while she was at it. Back to the guest room, and she settled in on the bed with absolutely no concern for getting crumbs or condensation on the comforter. She didn't bother closing the bedroom door, pulling all the pillows and blankets into a pile to build a sort of nest in the middle of the mattress.
This was a habit she'd had since long before she'd grown a tail.
Flipping through channels with the volume low, she giggled when she found – appropriately – a midnight marathon of a forensic true crime series. It brought back fond nostalgia for days when she'd been much younger and spent much more time high as a kite and having sex with women.
As one does.
Because her timing was impeccable, she was beginning to get sleepy just as the sun was starting to rise. She turned off the television and curled up in her cozy spot, and would remain curled there – though somewhat harder to find – after her transformation. Just your ordinary average teacup poodle, sleeping inside of a sweater and surrounded by wasabi peanuts and empty beer bottles.
"It's stupid, right?" She made a face. "Like, technically speaking, I'm pretty sure even just an alteration in size should permanently alter my consciousness, let alone literally all of my neurobiology, but instead it's like, welp, guess I'm a dog now. And you'd think, you know, magic and stuff, I'd be able to at least talk to dogs or something. But, nope! Can't speak a language I'm not socialized in. Like that's the part that has to make sense. Magic is dumb."
It was possible that the personality she was trying to convey did not actually support strong opinions on a physical theory of mind, but, well. Some things simply could not be borne in silence. Things like human brains in tiny dog bodies.
She may as well have slapped him for how he reacted to the way she took his hand, but he didn't try to take it back. Just stared at her like she'd grown a second head. Or turned into a dog. Her nose twitched, reflexively checking that she did not suddenly have a snout. It didn't work that way, but it never hurt to check. She was quite pleased to have him leading her by the hand, firstly because it was cute and secondly because it was intimate. If he didn't trust her enough to act intimate, she'd act intimate until she'd tricked him into trusting her.
(It was surprising how often that worked.)
It was disappointing when he let her go, and she didn't bother trying to hide it. "Thank you," she called after him as he retreated, though she did not follow. She waited until he'd closed the door, and another moment longer. Then she meandered back to the kitchen, because she still had half a pan of bacon and she wasn't letting it go to waste. She'd never actually been the biggest fan of most meat products before. Her favorite foods were cucumbers and plain yogurt. Now, suddenly, she just loved dead pigs in all their forms. Weird. In an attempt to be helpful, and with no understanding of how cast iron pans worked, she stuck the pan in the sink and covered it in dish soap.
Yup. So helpful. Downright domestic. Fortunately for Grayson, she was not feeling so helpful as to try scrubbing it. But she did raid his cupboards and pantry until she found a snack that was to her liking, and nabbed a beer from the back of the fridge while she was at it. Back to the guest room, and she settled in on the bed with absolutely no concern for getting crumbs or condensation on the comforter. She didn't bother closing the bedroom door, pulling all the pillows and blankets into a pile to build a sort of nest in the middle of the mattress.
This was a habit she'd had since long before she'd grown a tail.
Flipping through channels with the volume low, she giggled when she found – appropriately – a midnight marathon of a forensic true crime series. It brought back fond nostalgia for days when she'd been much younger and spent much more time high as a kite and having sex with women.
As one does.
Because her timing was impeccable, she was beginning to get sleepy just as the sun was starting to rise. She turned off the television and curled up in her cozy spot, and would remain curled there – though somewhat harder to find – after her transformation. Just your ordinary average teacup poodle, sleeping inside of a sweater and surrounded by wasabi peanuts and empty beer bottles.
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