[Network - Open] [Audio]

[dragoonrouge]

Date: [31st October]
Characters: [Sadie Moore and the Number I still haven't actually decided on even though its been months]

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Sadie's tone of voice as it comes through the Network is unexpected unless anyone had managed to spend any significant amount of time with her and her brother. It is taunting in a way that only teenagers who have siblings can manage. Her words are probably confusing to the rest of the Network as well.

"You are a bad dog."

Comments

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie sighs and glances at her Number, she's hardly going to announce Kitty's most recent change without the girl saying it first.]

She doesn't vote for cats being better because she's named like one,she is human.

... What were you trying to do earlier, when I picked you up?

[channingchanningchanning]

[That is ab abrupt enough change of topic that he needs to go with it and figure out what the question is.]

What do you mean?

[dragoonrouge]

When I picked you up. You bopped me on the face with your snout.

[channingchanningchanning]

That's irrelevant because you are the WRONG. PERSON!

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie winces at the duel loudness of Chad, both the bark and the translated words.]

Wrong person for what?

[channingchanningchanning]

You are NOT. THE. PERSON. I. REMEMBER.

[dragoonrouge]

Please don't shout, the echo hurts my ears.

What did you remember and why did you think I might have been them?

[channingchanningchanning]

[grumblegrumblegrumble]

Because you're blond and a young human woman.

[dragoonrouge]

Did I...trigger that memory for you? If you thought the person in it might have been me?

[channingchanningchanning]

[Well. Uh.]

You kissed me.

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie just...stares at Chad for a solid minute as her brain stalls there. Welp. That's a thing now, isn't it?]

So...Me kissing the top of your head gave you a memory...I'm assuming that you were being kissed in the memory?

[channingchanningchanning]

I was kissing someone. [Ttly not the other way around, absolutely the active party here, etc.] And she was pretty.

[dragoonrouge]

[She had been wondering and now she has to ask...]

In this memory where you kissed this pretty lady, were you human too?

...Wait...Did you try and kiss me?!?!

[channingchanningchanning]

Obviously.

[To the second, anyway. He has no idea about the first.]

[dragoonrouge]

[Oh god, she was going to have to explain consent to a dog, wasn't she?]

Right.

Right.

So.

Humans...we have a lot of rules around things like kissing, and one of them is consent. You need to have the other person's permission to kiss them if you don't then you hurt them. I did not tell you that you could kiss me and so you have done so without my consent. Which is bad.

[channingchanningchanning]

Well, I'm a dog, so that doesn't apply to me.

[DOG PRIVILEGE! Totally counts, no human rules for him!!!!!]

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie frowns deeply at Chad's response. Because she has a theory that Chad might potentially become less dog-like in the future, and she couldn't, in conscious, let him go about with ideas like that in his head.]

True,you are a dog. However, I am not. I did not consent to you kissing me and therefore you have hurt me. Which would make you a bad dog.

[channingchanningchanning]

You just like calling me a bad dog.

[The word might have been more effective if she hadn't used it earlier to get a rise out of him.

Also, he's just being snotty now.]

[dragoonrouge]

I call it how I see it. That's another thing. Don't steal the bones, they belong to the families of that person.

[channingchanningchanning]

If they didn't want someone to take them, they'd lock them away or put them on a high shelf.

[Someone lives in a household with many little children. And a small dog.]

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie sighs, dear god. Maybe she should just get Chad a Sesame street boxset of something?]

That's not how it works with deceased loved one's Chad. People burn the bodies or have them buried somewhere safe in a graveyard. But someone's dug everything up. It's not right.

[channingchanningchanning]

This is about bones.

[dragoonrouge]

The bones of people's loved ones! They still belong to people, they were kept here to keep them safe but someone broke in!

[channingchanningchanning]

[D O U B T]

Well. You can let go of me, anyway.

[dragoonrouge]

If I let you go will you promise to leave the bones alone?