I am. ( This part, spoken with snapped, hard and bearing certainty, as if he waits upon the stranger to attempt to dispute it.
Perhaps he does not seem the part, ragged and struggling to evade such primitive confines, but he has been reduced to this. This is not his natural state. He will rise above it, he will triumph and —
For now, he settles back, to wait. )
I have no control over this mutt. The old man holds him. I can't fight his sway from here.
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I am. ( This part, spoken with snapped, hard and bearing certainty, as if he waits upon the stranger to attempt to dispute it.
Perhaps he does not seem the part, ragged and struggling to evade such primitive confines, but he has been reduced to this. This is not his natural state. He will rise above it, he will triumph and —
For now, he settles back, to wait. )
I have no control over this mutt. The old man holds him. I can't fight his sway from here.