008 - Pecan
Apr. 30th, 2013 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deadly_nedSo.
As a first time Warden more or less mentoring a first time Inmate, there's this very important question that's been hovering menacingly near my head for the last few days like a demonic little helicopter and I would be remiss if I didn't at least ask it, even if I'm sure it's obvious to the more seasoned Wardens, Inmates, what have you.
...Is an Inmate's happiness more important than their graduation?
If you had to choose one, I mean.
And I think I should also ask to Inmates because I don't...like the unspoken divide and communication is usually an effective bridge over most divides..
What do you need from your warden to be happier?
[Private to Claire Bennet, Jesse Pinkman, the Marquis de Sade, and Megamind as a group]
Someone happened to tell me you're a dog person.
I'm trying to..rehome my dog, Digby. My Inmate is scared of them and it's probably best if Digby and I separated until my Inmate graduates. And I'd like to find someone to...borrow him, or take him, but if I don't find someone he'll have to go home and we've never been separated and I'm feeling a little...clingy.
As a first time Warden more or less mentoring a first time Inmate, there's this very important question that's been hovering menacingly near my head for the last few days like a demonic little helicopter and I would be remiss if I didn't at least ask it, even if I'm sure it's obvious to the more seasoned Wardens, Inmates, what have you.
...Is an Inmate's happiness more important than their graduation?
If you had to choose one, I mean.
And I think I should also ask to Inmates because I don't...like the unspoken divide and communication is usually an effective bridge over most divides..
What do you need from your warden to be happier?
[Private to Claire Bennet, Jesse Pinkman, the Marquis de Sade, and Megamind as a group]
Someone happened to tell me you're a dog person.
I'm trying to..rehome my dog, Digby. My Inmate is scared of them and it's probably best if Digby and I separated until my Inmate graduates. And I'd like to find someone to...borrow him, or take him, but if I don't find someone he'll have to go home and we've never been separated and I'm feeling a little...clingy.
Dog group filter.
Date: 2013-05-04 02:55 pm (UTC)Dog group filter. - Spam? Assume?
Date: 2013-05-04 11:02 pm (UTC)Dog group filter. - Spam is good!
Date: 2013-05-05 12:06 am (UTC)With a knock on the girl named Claire's door, the Piemaker waited for an answer. Any answer]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-05 06:03 pm (UTC)Hey! Come in!
[She waves him thus, stepping back to show a rather tidy room painted in stormy blue. Whereas windows are pointless on the Barge, she's kept the paint job Rapunzel did over them forever ago.
Claire whistles for Izzy and Chester, making them sit patiently at the foot of her bed, tails wagging in anticipation for new friends.]
Nice to meet you in person, Ned.
[The blonde holds her hand out in greeting.]
Re: SPAM
Date: 2013-05-08 05:20 am (UTC)Claire? It's, um. It's Ned. But you...knew that already.
[He trails in, Digby trotting calmly behind him, and holds up in front of the other dogs][Alive. She's alive. She's a warden. He can...touch her.
Reluctantly the Piemaker stretches out a hand and gives the most awkward and uncomfortable handshake possible, clearly not at home to touching]
Sorry. I.
Sorry.
These are your dogs?
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-08 10:40 pm (UTC)But yes, Izzy's the lab and Chester's the terrier. Is it okay to let them sniff and be dogs? I don't want to make him anxious to anything.
[Claire smiles between the pets then over at Ned.]
Re: SPAM
Date: 2013-05-09 12:04 pm (UTC)They can sniff. Digby doesn't mind.
[Digby indeed did not mind. He sits with a firm distance to Ned, somehow giving off the appearance of being a very old dog with none of the arthritis or health complications or grey, patchy fur associated with aging]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-09 03:08 pm (UTC)[Claire nods at the dogs, who excitedly take to investigating their new doggy friend, tails constantly wagging to show they mean well.]
How long have you had Digby for?
[Though she speaks to Ned, Claire watches Izzy and Chester just in case. They've only ever attacked those who wished her harm.]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-09 03:14 pm (UTC)Digby is three years old.
[This is the Piemaker's tricky way of lying without lying. Digby was, in fact, three years old, and had been three years old for twenty years, eight months, six days, and three hours. Digby, the old-and-yet-not-old dog, allows himself to be investigated, getting to his feet to sniff Izzy and Chester back out of mild social doggy etiquette]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-09 04:26 pm (UTC)SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 12:59 am (UTC)Here.
[The Piemaker withdraws something he'd been holding from behind his back. it was, for all intents and purposes, a wooden manneken hand with a pulling mechanism to make it curve back and forth like a real hand.
This he uses for a backscratcher for Digby, who leans into the wooden hand like this is the most natural thing]
You'll need this.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:20 pm (UTC)Um. Have to ask...why?
[Are these two that opposed and afraid of touch that it's come to the item in her hand?]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:21 pm (UTC)You, um.
I. I use that to pet Digby. I'm. Allergic.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:26 pm (UTC)[She didn't expect this to be so sad. Thanks, sad piemaker Ned.]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:28 pm (UTC)SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:34 pm (UTC)[The blonde decides to test it out now, with Ned present. She gingerly lowers herself to kneel beside the three dogs, scruffing Chester. Claire then holds the hand out for Digby to see and or sniff first before she gently and slowly runs it down the length of his spine a few times.]
You must love him a lot to keep him even when you're allergic, [she observes, eyes on the retriever.]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:40 pm (UTC)I do. I do love him a lot. There's no one who's gone through more things with me than Digby.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 05:44 pm (UTC)[A couple more good pets and then she pushes herself upright.] You still want to see how he fairs with Megamind? Or...maybe you could leave him with me for a day and then Megamind for a day? I don't know, I'm just trying to think of what's best for you guys.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 08:16 pm (UTC)That might be good. Better, even. That way he can go half to you, half to him...it won't get too overwhelming.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-10 09:22 pm (UTC)SPAM
Date: 2013-05-11 10:26 pm (UTC)SPAM
Date: 2013-05-11 11:36 pm (UTC)Whatever's easiest on you two. If that means Megamind getting, for lack of better words, sole custody, then so be it, or if you think doing the on one month, off another thing is better...I mean, you know him best, of course. He seems to get on well enough with my dogs, and I'd love Digby like my own, but in the end, it's your decision, Ned.
Re: SPAM
Date: 2013-05-11 11:40 pm (UTC)[The Piemaker looked at Digby. Digby looked at the Piemaker. Finally, the man said,]
I'd like to try...joint custody. Between...you and Megamind. I think. We're both trying to get more...social, meet more people. This will be good for him. Us. It'll...be good for us.
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-11 11:46 pm (UTC)Whatever you want, you have it. Should we all talk about it together or would you rather speak with him alone? And you are more than welcome to come see Digby whenever you want, he's still your puppy.
[Yeah, yeah, he's an adult dog, whatever. She likes saying puppy more.]
SPAM
Date: 2013-05-11 11:48 pm (UTC)I'll take Digby to Megamind this week. And then I'll...bring him back here. It's. Change of environment is good for him.
I hope.
SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:SPAM
From:(( OOC - okay to end here? ))
From:(( OOC - yep! ))
From: