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First Step [Video; public]

Hello? Hello, yes.

[The dog comes into focus at an odd angle - the communicator is on the floor, between her forepaws as she peers down over it. Apparently satisfied that it's working, she yips in delight, rushing out of view in a close-up whirl of paws and tail and glimpses of an old timber ceiling as she spins in a circle. Then her face reappears, tongue hanging out slightly from her canine grin.]

Hello! I'm the Disreputable Dog. Or the Disreputable Bitch, if you want to be technical. Who wants to go for a walk?

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[ HOLY RAO A TALKING DOG.

Kara likes dogs.

Kara is pleased by this development. ]

I could go for a walk with you, if you don't mind.

You're so polite! I don't mind. Walks are one of my very favorite things!

Thank you. Mother always said that I must have manners befitting the dignity of the house of El. [ She says it with the sing-song of one repeating a phrase heard often. ]

Where would you like to walk? I'm new here myself, so I haven't seen a lot of the ship.

Then we should explore together! Where are you now?

I'm in my room. I move very quickly though, so if you just tell me where you are I can find you in a second or two.

Level 4, cabin 17!

[And the Dog will meet her in the hallway, sitting on her haunches, tail wagging, no matter how fast Kara is. The Dog has a few tricks of her own.]

[ Below deck is easy enough, and she's getting some practice speeding through the doors without breaking them. When she arrives outside the door she's pleased to see the Dog already there. ]

Hello again! I'm sorry I didn't say before. My name is Kara Zor-el.

Hello Miss Kara.

[She winds in a circle around Kara once, sniffing her knees.]

You smell like stars!

Do I? [ Although she supposes that makes sense, since her power comes from the sun and the sun is a star. ]

That must be because of the yellow sun. [ She's just glad to hear she doesn't smell like kyrptonite or death. ]

[As far as the Dog is concerned, only the Dead really smell like death. He can tell she isn't quite healthy - but that would be rude to mention right away. And whatever she is is new, and interesting.]

Do you spend a lot of time with the sun?

[Half joking, half earnest - because here, who knows?]

A lot, since I left Krypton. It's where my energy comes from now that I don't need to eat.

[ And in the time her pod spent circling the sun, she's soaked up a whole lot of solar radiation. ]

Incredible.

[It's not awed, exactly - but delighted, and satisfied. A person who drinks light like a forest. It's different.]

I thought so too. [ And by way of explanation: ] It's only been a couple of weeks.

Where would you like to walk first?

Let's go...

[She spins in a circle, around and around twice, seems to decide at random.]

This way!

Alright! [ Kara could not be more pleased with the choice if it was in fact the exact opposite direction. She heads off in that direction, trusting the Dog will be at her side. ]

I hope it's not rude to ask, but what brings you here? I don't know what sort of things a dog might make a deal for.

[She's silent for awhile as she trots at Kara's side, not offended, just thinking about the question, what threads of the story to tell.]

When I was young, I did something...desperate. And it was the right thing, I believe that. A great deal of good came of it. But down the line it put a people in harm's way who would have fared better otherwise. I'm here for them.

[It's a very deliberate vagueness, the kind that discourages more questions, but gently, without her usual evasiveness. It's a very long story, with more of her heartsblood in it than she cares to spill just now.]

Oh.

[ She wasn't sure what she was expecting. It just sounds so human. But, as she said, she didn't know much about the psyche of a dog. Maybe they were more like humans than she thought. ]

That sounds like a very good reason.

I'm also avoiding some people. This seemed like as good a place as any!

[ At that she actually laughs. ]

Rao, I am too, in a way.

Nothing like being on the move in another dimension to shake that one annoying relative.

[ She chuckles, but at the same time she sobers momentarily at the thought of her family. Soon she brightened again, remembering that she was here to bring them back, not her baby cousin but everyone else. All of her family and all of her friends. She just has to stay hopeful. ]

He means well, but sometimes you just need space.

[Mogget - Yrael - does not mean well. But his grievances are just the tiniest bit justified, so she's staying out of his way for a little while. Like, maybe a century or two.]

Everyone needs to stretch their legs once in a while.

[ Kara is not so much a cat person as a dog person, luckily for the Dog. She takes slower but longer strides in subconscious agreement. ]

Dogs more often than others, I would think, with your attitude towards walks.

Well, we have more legs, for one thing!

Not as many legs as some, but more than humans certainly.

[ She glances around as though suddenly remembering that they're moving. ]

Are we going anywhere in particular? We'll be at the stairs in a moment.

First Step [Video; public]

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