So, the animal shelter. Sparkle... had kind of broken into it over the weekend, and made off with some chickens, and had messed up the chicken coop, and he had no idea who ran the place or when they even worked. So he was going to kind of take a gamble and stop in whenever the place was actually open.

He did sort of pause in the doorway. Partly to look kind of relieved that the lock had been repaired, and partly because he was now considering all the ways that fessing up to stealing chickens to a giant red shark man could possibly go badly for him. Still, he steeled himself, took a breath, and made his way in, anyway.

One of the dogs started growling at him. He grimaced a little.

"Uh, hey?"