The Bailiff
Doc
The gentle giant of the house. Loud about absolutely everything.
Things Doc does
- Comes running when you call his name. Slightly less running these days.
- Plays real fetch with a sparkly pom pom — chases it, carries it back, drops it in your hand.
- Drinks water fast enough to sneeze, and has never once revised the technique.
- Opens cabinets. Retrieved a bag of cookies from the bin and re-hid it exactly where it had been.
- Wants a seat at the table, and will eat like a person if you put his bowl in front of his chair.
- Loves baths. With bubbles. And rubber ducks.
Book Two
Her story, roughly
Book Two starts a very long way from here. There is a motel, a long drive north, and three weeks of medicine on a kitchen counter. It does not mention how loud he was about all of it.
I said hello. I said it the whole way.
— Doc, still talking