[ Cisco asks the question automatically, curious about the animal that Jon is comparing Annie to, who is apparently so good at tricks. It's just a reflexive conversational response, and one that he regrets the moment he glances up from Annie to Jon and sees Jon wiping his too-wet eyes with his sleeve. Cisco's stomach sinks at that and he hastily adds: ]
Tricks or no tricks, she's sweet. Never seen anything with four wings before. Apart from dragonflies, I guess. And I think some kinds of dinosaurs had four.
[ He gives Annie one last pat and returns to his box, hauling out the Nintendo and starting the work of sorting out the cables and connections. It's the sort of thing Cisco could do in his sleep. ]
Sort of. My two housemates have each got a cat. There's Petya, who is very dignified and stoic, and he's Yuri's, and there's Shadow, who is still just a kitten and has recently decided he wants to climb on everything all the time, and he's Eddie's. Neither of them are mine, but, I help take care of them, y'know?
[ He keeps up this rather pointless ramble about the apartment's cats as he is hooking up the Nintendo, wanting to fill up that sad silence, to distract Jon from whatever it was that had brought tears to his eyes. ]
You're welcome to come over, anytime, if you want to see them. They love attention. Even if Petya pretends he doesn't care one way or another.
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[ Cisco asks the question automatically, curious about the animal that Jon is comparing Annie to, who is apparently so good at tricks. It's just a reflexive conversational response, and one that he regrets the moment he glances up from Annie to Jon and sees Jon wiping his too-wet eyes with his sleeve. Cisco's stomach sinks at that and he hastily adds: ]
Tricks or no tricks, she's sweet. Never seen anything with four wings before. Apart from dragonflies, I guess. And I think some kinds of dinosaurs had four.
[ He gives Annie one last pat and returns to his box, hauling out the Nintendo and starting the work of sorting out the cables and connections. It's the sort of thing Cisco could do in his sleep. ]
Sort of. My two housemates have each got a cat. There's Petya, who is very dignified and stoic, and he's Yuri's, and there's Shadow, who is still just a kitten and has recently decided he wants to climb on everything all the time, and he's Eddie's. Neither of them are mine, but, I help take care of them, y'know?
[ He keeps up this rather pointless ramble about the apartment's cats as he is hooking up the Nintendo, wanting to fill up that sad silence, to distract Jon from whatever it was that had brought tears to his eyes. ]
You're welcome to come over, anytime, if you want to see them. They love attention. Even if Petya pretends he doesn't care one way or another.