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[onetrackminds]

[And Anders just... stares. By his estimation, it should take her about ten minutes to swim the few feet over.

He raises an eyebrow.]

She already looks like a drowned rat.

[he is immune to cute.]

[hawkethat]

[Excuse you, ser]

[Excuse you!]

She's much cuter than a rat. Aren't you, Pearl?

[Hawke takes pity on her and steps forward to pick her up. He knows his dog, though, and he realizes what it was that finally motivated her to jump into the water. So he turns and holds her out to Anders. She looks even smaller than usual held in his hands, her considerable fluff plastered to her skinny little puppy body by the water. She pants and whines at Anders but otherwise holds very still, as she's learned this seems to be the best method to encourage head pets from him.]

Look, she came to see you.

[onetrackminds]

She really is tiny, isn't she?

[it's so much more obvious now with the lack of fur. And he'd still argue she looks like a drowned rat, if a very happy one.

And he knows Hawke won't back down with this, so he reaches out to scratch her behind one ear.]

Is she really supposed to be this small? Are we feeding her enough?

[hawkethat]

[Don't think he didn't notice that "we", Anders. <3]

She's grown a little since we got her.

[Pearl goes totally still when Anders starts scratching behind her ear; maybe if she's really, really good, he'll forget what he's doing and just keep doing it!

...Hey, she can hope!]

We're feeding her plenty. She's not skinny, just...small.

[onetrackminds]

[he might not be a dog person, but she still deserves to be taken care of, okay. He's a responsible kinda guy!!]

I've never seen a dog this small before coming here. She'd be a snack to a mabari.

[... it's a good thing she doesn't understand him, isn't it? She still just looks happy because he's petting her.]

[hawkethat]

I hadn't, either. And she would be.

[What? He's not going to deny it, she's bite-sized!]

Although I think even a mabari would have trouble with all the hair.

[onetrackminds]

[he laughs at that, suddenly.]

She's a fur ball.

[it's funnier because he's had cats.]

[hawkethat]

[HAWKE DOESN'T GET IT]

...What's so funny?

[onetrackminds]

[pause.]

You'll see once we have cats.

[hawkethat]

[...He doesn't like the sound of that.]

That sounds ominous.

[onetrackminds]

...

At least cats don't pee on my clothes.

[hawkethat]

She only did that once. And she felt bad.

[Anders, you need to let go of that. :<]

[onetrackminds]

I'm just reminding you.

[all pets have their flaws okay don't hold it against the cats.]

[hawkethat]

I have to confess I'm not sure what hairballs have to do with her peeing on your clothes.

[All pets have their flaws okay don't hold it against the puppy]

[onetrackminds]

Aside from the fact she is one?

[hawkethat]

Aside from that. You said "furball" and then started laughing, and then mentioned cats.

[HE'S CONFUSED ANDERS HE DOESN'T KNOW CATS come on be a bro here ;w;]

[onetrackminds]

A joke is never funny if you have to explain it.

[quoting Varric here probably.]

[hawkethat]

...No, I guess it isn't.

[He won't pursue it, but that's not going to stop him from feeling confused! Or suddenly (even more) worried about taking on a litter of seven cats.]

[onetrackminds]

[he doesn't want to scare him too much beforehand!]

Are you going to keep teaching your furball how to swim?

[hawkethat]

I think so, unless you needed me for something.

[Suggestive eyebrow waggle]



[Hawke, no, stop, Hawke, you're both naked in public, stoppit...!]

[onetrackminds]

[smiles, and leans in to kiss him.]

Later, definitely.

[hawkethat]

[Hawke smiles back as he returns the kiss]

Are you going to keep being all handsome and distracting over there?

[He indicates the deeper water where Anders had been swimming with a tilt of his head]

[onetrackminds]

[you are a mystery to him, Hawke.]

If you don't mind. I'd like to swim.

[hawkethat]

[What why]

Then swim. We'll be right here.

[onetrackminds]

[because he's a far too skinny man with, currently, stubble bordering on a beard and dark circles under his eyes. To start with.

Hardly the definition of handsome.]

We can take turns if you'd like to swim as well.

[as in, he'll babysit the hairball.]