The Park, Friday Morning

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden had been woken up early by a cute, fluffy cat. It was annoying that there had been no one around to make her breakfast, but she had found some cookies, and the cat had known where the cat food was and...

Here they were. The cat had insisted on going to the park, and since it was cute and fluffy Seivarden had allowed it, and now she was looking up at the cat sitting on a high branch in one of the trees.

"Come down!" She called, waving her arms. She really needed a proper breakfast, and a little tea, and...

The cat wailed.

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke had definitely been hit harder. And by much bigger people. So he doubled over, but he shoved back almost as fast -- shoved, not hit or punched.

"I'm not the one who made fun of your name!" he yelled. "So who's the real jerk, you jerk!"

[died8yearsago]

If he was going to shove Rosa, Rosa was definitely going to shove him back, with everything she had, which might not be that much, especially since he was bigger, but there was more than enough weetiny fury behind it.

"Because of your name?" She practically gawked at him. "And you're calling me that baby?"

[betterthanaplan]

Duke was braced for it this time, and barely wobbled. And quite manfully managed not to shove back, he thought.

"That's right, throw your little tantrum, baby. Don't you need to go get your bottle?"

[died8yearsago]

"You're worse than that cat!" Rosa cried, throwing an accusing arm back toward that dumb animal that started this whole conversation. "You're just a whole bunch of talk and no action!"

[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked up at the cat and shrugged. "Cat looks pretty comfy to me. You're just mad because you're as dumb as your dog."

[died8yearsago]

"And you're dumber than both of us put together!" Rosa shouted, stomping her foot, clenching her fists, and wanting to hit him again so bad, or kick him, or something, but the fact that he wouldn't fight back only seemed to make it worse. "You're just a dumb," she put particular emphasis on each of the words, "stupid. COWARD!"

She almost kicked him, at that point, but she just stomped her foot one more time and turned around to march away before she really did let him have it, but, again, if he wasn't even going to fight back...

"Anna Pavlova!" she called the dog after a moment, followed by a command that she thought sounded Russian, even though it definitely wasn't because she'd only just made it up right then. The dog herself just sort of looked between the two of them with a confused look, started to go for Duke's shoes again, but, at the sound of Rosa's call, went loping eagerly after her.

[betterthanaplan]

"Am not a coward," Duke grumbled, watching her go. "And I'm smart. And Duke's a perfectly good name!!!"