Niko Bellic | Network 002

[vengeance_driven]

[Public | Audio]

I would like to say that I do not intend to eat my hound. He is a good dog. He protects me.

Those are not all the words I said.

I won't eat my beast either. She keeps creepers away. I also wouldn't eat her if she didn't keep creepers away.

[Niko's explanations at their finest.]

Comments

[domesheriff]

[she gives a smile of amusement at that] Sounds like a good sign. I've got a feeling it's gonna take me a while...

Well, you do have two languages and three countries now. [she takes it as the joke he intends. don't worry, Niko--she may not be the same sort of country bumpkin as you are, but she definitely is one, too]

[vengeance_driven]

Three. I speak Russian, too. They think I sound like a peasant, but I speak Russian. [Russians usually don't have the kindest opinions of other Slavs- after all, there are so many of them.]

But here, you don't have to worry about food, about work. Is like what my country wanted to be when it thought of communism. And here, the capitalism doesn't seem to hurt anyone.

[Most of it, anyway.]

[domesheriff]

Even more worldly, then! [but at his other comments, she frowns curiously at him. the way he put that, it makes Quadratus sound like some kind of paradise] Is that your way of saying you really like it here?

[quixotically]

[Elle isn't entirely sure what to do with herself. In the end, she decides to lower herself into a crouch, holding the package of meat with both hands.]

This world is full of all kinds of danger... I mean, it's pretty hard to pick out creepers, right? Maybe, if the dogs are more loyal, they aren't gonna run when they get scared because of them... [She trails off, thinking of how skittish the coyotes are back home. They've been content to walk with her sometimes, on occasions when she was out walking the Mojave by herself, but as soon as there was something dangerous...] Are they really that much more loyal than regular trained dogs? I mean... Rex and Roxie, they've always been prone to running to danger, because their protective instincts have been bred so strong... I thought that it was pretty much the same.

[vengeance_driven]

That's the only thing the dogs won't attack.

You can train a dog very well back home. You can work with it for months. Years of input. But these dogs? Just feed them until they like you and they are yours. And yes, unless someone else can get through to them the dog will sit and wait for you no matter how long it is that you are gone, without wondering off. And it takes much to get through to them.

They're very dedicated. They won't even eat beyond what they absolutely need until you feed them.... don't ah... overfeed them though.

Because... [He makes a dismissive gesture. You know. Like he and Boone learned the hard way.] Pas tries to make Rex his girlfriend sometimes. [Which, reasonably, doesn't work.]

[quixotically]

[Elle stifles a laugh. She shifts the meat to one hand and reaches over to pat Pas' back.] Sorry, buddy. He's the wrong kind of doggy for that.

[She muses on the training for a moment.] I guess... One benefit for people about this would be that, if they got caught out in the woods or something... Then they'd be able to have a fast friend who'll help take care of them.