Wellspring Arms and Meditation Center, Thursday

[the_merriest]

Rikku bounced into the store and set up for her shift. Right. People could buy weapons, but not if they were crazy or evil. And they could head into the back to meditate, but the Shooting Range wasn't open yet. Piece of cake.

Rikku decided to spend her shift adding Flamestrike to a particularly interesting gun. Flaming bullets sounded sort of neat.

The Wellspring Arms was open.

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Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

Weapons. Weapons are nifty.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

There was a dog there, staring at Rikku, attempting to get the point across that he really needed a beer.

(At least the yellow boxes still work)

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"Hi, puppy!" Rikku giggled, stepping around the counter to hold a hand out for the dog to sniff. "Can I pet you? Are you a friendly puppy?"

Re: Talk to Rikku

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Deadpool sighed. Or chuffed. As dogs do, and sat down in front of her. Maybe he should try the Lassie thing.

Timmy's stuck down the well!

Which came out more like, 'bark bark.'

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"Are you a good puppy?" she giggled, reaching out to scritch his ears. "I bet you're a good puppy. Who'sa good puppy?"

Re: Talk to Rikku

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Deadpool normally would find this weird and wrong, but...

Damn did ear scritches feel good!

His back leg might be tapping now in glee.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"I don't have any treat-treats," she cooed. "But I might be able to find some snacks in here somewhere, if I looked."

Re: Talk to Rikku

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Oh man, he needed to turn back now. Treats sound absolutely divine.

Deadpool barked once in encouragement, tail wagging.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

Don't ask how Rikku found beef jerky. The Al Bhed were always prepared, for nearly any eventuality. It was a thing.

She held out a strip for him. "Sit up and beg?" she laughed. "Or, uh, that's kinda mean, huh? To, like, make you do tricks just to get yum-yums. You're totally allowed to have your own dignity or whatever. Uh. Here, have a treat-treat."

She tossed him a piece of beef jerky, feeling a little strange about discussing ethics with a dog.

Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

Mod your Zen here.

Re: Meditation Room

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A husky clambered down the stairs, surrounded by the strangest air of dignity. It wandered past Rikku, ignoring her entirely, then flopped down on the floor of the meditation room.

Re: Meditation Room

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

And the mangey dog promptly attacked him. Okay, so it was really more of a pathetic leaping than an attack. Four legs threw him off, so sue him!

Re: Meditation Room

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

The husky did not as much as blink upon being attacked.

He knew this was going to happen.

This is why the husky responded by calmly moving out of the way.

Re: Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

"Hey!" Rikku said. "No fighting in the meditation room! Bad dogs! Very bad dogs!"

Re: Meditation Room

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

The mangey dog just gave her puppy eyes. But attacking was fun!

Re: Meditation Room

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

The husky gave Rikku a Look. It was not in any way equatable to puppy dog eyes.

Being a husky, however, that made it look vaguely cute anyway.

Re: Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

"You know you're very bad puppies," she announced. "This is a meditate-y room. No fighting. If you wanna meditate, you go right ahead. Biting isn't meditating."

Re: Meditation Room

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Deadpool upped the puppy eyes, sitting up on his hind legs to add to the cute.

Re: Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

Rikku stepped into the meditation room hesitantly. "Hi, puppy," she said, walking over to it with a hand offered. "You, uh, you belong to somebody?"

Something about his eye seemed familiar.

Re: Meditation Room

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The husky, lying on the floor, moved his head up and looked at Rikku with quiet solemnity.

Re: Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

"It's, uh, it's nice here," she offered. "You ... are you a student? 'Cause Jude keeps turning into a cat on me. But he's in Canada. Kinda happens a lot, though."

Re: Meditation Room

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

The husky's eye flashed, as if to say that no, it was not a student.

Re: Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

"You're a very pretty puppy," she said, reaching out to scritch its ears. "Do you live here? With Cable? Mr. Cable? Should I call him Mr. Cable?"

Re: Meditation Room

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

Deciding that this case was probably hopeless, the husky just laid his head down.

And let himself be scritched. This would probably all pass.

OOC

[the_merriest]

Hooray, weapons!