foolishwren | 108. [Video/Action for Mahogany]

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108. [Video/Action for Mahogany]

_{[There's been a lot of people leaving lately.]

[Which means a lot of Pokemon left behind.]

[Today's video is brief. Like maybe six seconds long, and it starts outside the PokeMart in Mahogany Town. You know, where delivery people sometimes show up with mail too big to be sent through the PC. Someone else is holding the camera-- possibly Henry.]

[There, sitting right down there in the dirt, is Heather.]

[Surrounded by approximately five million Mightyena.]

[... Okay, more like six.]}

WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THESE DOGS?!!

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So that's where Harry's dogs went.

CARMEN HELP




I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE THIS MANY DOGS


I'M HAVING A DOG CRISIS HERE

_{[HARRY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE]}

I'll say you are. ...No bones about it.

[But, to her credit, shortly thereafter she makes her way to the PokeMart (convenient, considering she was already in Mahogany herself at the time) with a Mightyena of her own at her side — one she happens to know will be happy to see the others, considering he's their brother.

And Murphy Slaw (otherwise known as the Lobocrook) is indeed happy to see everyone, bounding along merrily and looking as though he's about to bolt and dive right in to the puppy-pile himself, save for the fact that Carmen hasn't given him the A-OK to leave her side yet.]

_{[And she will find Heather just sort of ... sitting there. In the middle of her pile of dogs. One still has its butt squarely on her shoulders. Another is standing there and licking the side of her head repeatedly. It's already given her a cowlick.]

[But at the sight of Murphy Slaw, the small pack perks up INSTANTLY-- and because Heather honestly hasn't exerted any kind of control over them just yet, they all just sort of run over to surround Carmen and the other Mightyena, bushy tails all a-wag.]}

[The bad news is, Carmen can't actually tell the difference between the dogs at a glance, either; she might've, once, but she'd been away for too long, and they'd grown up without her. The good news, however, is that she has full faith in the belief that Harry trained them well, and she knows their names, and she's always had something of a way with dogs — if being able to subdue a guard dog with a SIT and a hand gesture is any indication.]

All right, the six of you. Sit! Jay, Rutledge. Sit, Cushing. Sit, Blair. Wilson, Iredell? Sit!

[And a beat passes, where the seventh — Murphy — cocks his head up and gives his trainer the most positively humanlike, cheekiest grin you've ever seen on a dog, and she rolls her eyes a bit as she regards him as well.]

And the same goes for you, troublemaker.

_{[She thinks right-- they sit instantly, big red tongues flicking out to lap at their chops. THEY ARE GOOD DOGS.]

[Off in the background, Heather gets to her feet and sheepishly dusts off the seat of her pants.]}

... H-hey, Carmen...

Fancy meeting you here, Heather.

[And since such good boys and girls deserve such good rewards, she'll just proceed to start smothering them all in attention now — fur-ruffling, ear-scratching, the whole bit.]

I take it you're less than thrilled with your latest acquisitions.

You could say that...

_{[She watches as the Mightyenas pretty much melt like ice cream under Carmen's hands-- at the very least, they don't seem AGGRESSIVE. So there's that.]}

I... didn't know the Sheriff was gonna... you know... leave me the whole bunch.

I'm somewhat surprised they didn't come to me, honestly.

[Managing seven eager dogs at once isn't an easy task, but of course, Carmen has never let something failing to be easy slow her down.]

But for some reason, he saw fit to leave me Waldo.

Yeah, me too. _{[She says it honestly, because... yeah, why HADN'T they gone to Carmen? ... She's sure the Sheriff must've had a reason for leaving her with them, which in turn is the main reason why she's not just considering pawning them off on willing people, but what that reason IS, she's not sure.]}

Where'd the rest of them go? Do you know?

_{[... Is there even anyone taking care of the farm now?]}

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