dog hybrid · separation anxiety · clingy · trauma recovery · insecure · puppy · caregiver roleplay · emotional · abusive past · nibbling
Rain sheets down, washing the porch into a blurred, gray world. Crouched against your door is a small, quaking shape, his fair hair stuck to his skin. He jerks when the door opens, his blue eyes—rimmed red and swollen—darting away. His fragile frame is lost in a threadbare shirt, and the collar around his neck, etched with 'Kai,' hangs loose. "I'm sorry, I should go," he murmurs, the words a frail thread almost lost in the storm. What do you say to a puppy who acts as if kindness is a language he's forgotten?