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A puppy sees the feathers and eyes them with a look that on a good day would be amusement. This not being a good day it is a look of abject horror. At least I'm not the only one that looks ridiculous today. He thinks to himself.

He grabs the belt the rapier is still connected to, and drags it over to where the peacock is sitting. He'd be bounding except the sword is quite heavy.
When he gets there his tail is wagging like crazy. "Stop that! He growls at it." Unfortunately the tail doesn't seem to understand dog. "You're making me look utterly ridiculous." He snaps at it again. He just barely refrains from chasing it in circles.

Then remembering Gorlim with the ostentatious hat, he stands on his back legs, front paws resting on Gorlims leg, and, Oh bloody hell..."Arf" He barks excitedly.

*Gorlim looks down at the dog curiously* Hullo. *He scratches it on the head* Nice... erm... sword?

The dog wonders if biting the leg would be considered violence. Instead he just glares.

"Arf" he says again noncommittally.

I see.

*Gorlim reaches around to try to read the name on the collar*

The dog gets back down on all fours rapidly and slowly backs away. Growling if it appears Gorlim is going to try again.

'Oh for goodness sake, just make this better' He thinks, but isn't able to express it in "human". Instead he settles for a slightly angry, slightly bitter, "Arf"

*Gorlim tilts his head at the animal.* Hey, what? I just want to see your name.

He makes a quiet request to the bar for something the dog might like to eat. He eyes the contents of the plate but sets it down a few feet in front of him anyway, trying to draw the dog nearer.

He wonders vaguely why the bar thinks the dog likes tacos...*

The dog also eyes the contents of the plate. He had seen things similar at home. It at least looked better than the lumpy brown stuff the bar had given him earlier. He did not find the bar funny in the slightest.

"arf?" He sniffs it, picks one up. It promptly falls apart, because that's what tacos do. He gives up and shoves the plate under Gorlim's seat, and starts eating. He finds they aren't too bad. Though it does give him the urge to request things in Castillian.

See? Good struff, innit? *He draws his knees up onto the bar stool and leans over, just barely keeping his rediculous feathers out of the dog's way as he tries again to get a look at the collar*

The dog notices this, and jumps out of the way. Though mostly he just manages to jump right into one of the legs of the stool. The stool that Gorlim is precariously perched on.

Gorlim topples over onto the dog, and in doing so manages finally to grab the collar and see the name...*

ANDRES?!

The dog yelps, freezes, and stares at him like a proverbial deer in the headlights. Proverbial because he is not a deer and not familiar with headlights.

*He sits in front of the dog and STARES* Andres, what the hell have you got yourself into??

The dog, tail between its legs, head hung low, whimpers. It nudges Gorlim's knee with its nose, then lays down, resting its head on his leg. It just looks at him sadly.

*he shakes his head, laughing a little. It wasn't unusual where he came from for things like this to happen. He himself had been a hedgehog AND a unicorn. However, there were no maiar or even valar to be responsible, so he takes the next most logical guess, defaulting to his people's beliefs* What did you DO, pretty bird, annoy a fairy?

He promptly puts his paws over his face, hiding from the question.

*siiiigh* Can I take that as a yes? *scritches* Will you show me who's responsible so I can steal some of his fairy gold or whatever is required?

He looks up at him, head cocked to the side as if he's thinking. He shakes his head.

It's embarrassing, and what's anyone gonna do about it. Puck had his fun. Besides, Gorlim wasn't fond of magic. He would just have to wait.

*He crosses his arms* Well I hope you don't think I'm sleeping you you like THAT. Or anything else for that matter.

The dog plops its head down in his lap again and looks very morose. His tail thumps slowly on the floor.

...you know, you are kinda cute like this. Maybe I WILL keep you this way. You can sleep at the foot of the bed and keep my feet warm.

Well it's better than nothing. At least he'd be able to keep an eye on him and Ellie. He didn't expect it would be permanent, but hey, he'd heard of people keeping guard dogs.

Despite this logic he looks up at him with a look that says only, say that again, and I will kill you again.

*He laughs at the expression* Oh dear. I guess there were no fairies in your world, were there, my dear? You'd have learned long ago not to annoy them or things like this happen.

I only hope you don't lose your mind and die like I had to to undo the unicorn spell, *he says thoughtfully*

This was not reassuring in the slightest.

The puppy makes his decision. He gets to his feet and starts looking around for Robin Goodfellow. He doesn't see him in the bar so he runs to the lake door and barks, waiting for someone to open it.

*he sighs again and gets up to open the door.* This place needs a dog door. I saw a fox slithering about the other day...

"Arf"

He darts around for a moment outside, but not seeing Puck, he is quickly distracted by the lake. He had been meaning to swim at some point. He runs into the water, but forgetting he is smaller than he is used to being, he is suddenly no longer running on solid ground.

He turns around and barks encouragingly.

*staaaaares*

...

*shrugs*

*runs towards the lake and leaps in, tossing aside his sword on the way*

Andrespuppy doggy paddles over to Gorlim, because how else would a dog swim.

He attempts to climb onto his shoulders to keep out of the water.

ACK! *Gorlim sputters and is forced under the water, but he hadn't spent five or more years living next to an enchanted lake without learning a few things about swimming. Her ducks under the water and pushes away from the dog*

and suddenly the puppy finds itself under water too. He doesn't like that much.

He paddles after Gorlim as quickly as he can, but being a clumsy puppy, and not a water dog, this is not very quickly.

"Hello, Gorlim," Asar-Suti says, sauntering by. "I'm so sorry to hear about Andres getting changed."

*he eyes the purple god* Changed?

"Hasn't he found you yet? I thought he was going to," Asar-Suti asks.

OH the dog thing. I thought you meant his clothes. He never changes those.

I was a fairy that did it, yeah? I haven't seen any around here yet but I can guess. I haven't seen any Valar either but they're a lot more.... visible.

"Yes, the dog thing. The fairy is called Robin Goodfellow, also known as Puck. He's annoyed my friend Eska already, and frightened the poor little sprite Tiki who lives in our library, in a bowl of rose leaves."

Asar-Suti shrugs.

"And now he changed you lover into dog-shape; that is a bother."