A Team of Eight

==Meta==
Timing: January 2015
Setting: Jaeger Academy, Kodiak Island
Inspired by: Now if someone wants to write the 'Chuck discovers sled-dogs' fic… (Or the 'Chuck's PTSD dog is getting old and fat' one…) (rorykurago)
==Text==
Chuck slumps at his desk at the Academy's children's class. 
"Good morning!" greets the teacher. "[We have a special guest today]." 
Chuck slouches deeper in his too-big RAAF hoodie. 
A person walks in, adjusts their overcoat. "Good morning, kids."
"Good morning, Officer," they chorus. 
"Now, I know /you're the Child Development Lab's kids, but do any of you know who /I am?" 
Hands go up. 
"In the red."
"Someone important?" asks a kid. 
"You could say that," says the person. "I'm the Master of the [Horse] down in the Garage, but a lot of people call me the Master of the Dogs." 
Max woofs. 
"That's right, [pooch, I have a few teams of your cousins] under my command." 
Chuck casually sits up, spins his pencil. 
The Master of the Dogs picks up a piece of chalk. "How many of you have heard of 'sled dogs'?" 
"I have!" [calls a kid] in the back. 
"What do you know [about them]?" 
Chuck doodles Max. 
"They have to be muscle-y and blubber-y and furry." 
Chuck doodles another Max. 
"Can anyone tell me [what breeds] fit that description?" 
Lots of hands shoot in the air. 
Chuck rolls his eyes, scratches out a couple more Maxes. 
"In the purple."
"Samoyeds, huskies, Malamutes, and Qimmiq."
Chuck glowers at his paper.
"Very good. What do you guys think about meeting them?" 
[Max whuffs, wiggles his whole self.] 
Which is how Chuck, Max, {and} two other students bundled in parkas and blankets, [the Master of the Dogs,] and eight sled dogs bounding away [happily come] to be fairly flying over [southwest] Kodiak's tundra.
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