Neighbourhoods

Date/Timing: 21 May 2011
Setting: Edan's rooms; Mile End, London, England, United Kingdom
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Hermann shuffles out of the shower, shakes drops from his wings, towels off, and sets to dressing.
""The agent sent a list overnight~!""
"Excellent." He tightens his binder, tugs on a tee, then a collared shirt, then a lightweight jumper. A quick check of his hair (good enough) and he limps into the main room.
"Good morning~!" Edan pecks his check, offers his mobile. "Again."
From the floor, Dottie woffles (a little muffled by her Elizabethan collar) and her tail /thumps against her cushion.
"Good morning, Dottie."
She settles down as best she can with the plastic neckwear.
"Doesn't she seem brighter this morning?"
"Mhm. Her stitches seem to be healing well, too."
"You'll be back to full speed in no time, won't you, sugar-loaf?"
"/whuff!"
Hermann grunts, flops on his stomach on the bed, studies the list of suggested flats. "These are all over the city. Where do you think we should focus?"
Edan comes around, perches on the mattress near his head. "You'll be the working man, Mr Tenure Track, so we should settle closer to your college than mine."
Hermann frowns.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't want to inconvenience—"
Edan rolls his eyes. "I'm a student: I can commute."
"Your research requires the labs while I can do mine from anywhere."
"Yea, but you have courses to teach and office hours and meetings and such like you need to be on time for. You can't afford to subject yourself to the vagaries of public transport, 'specially not London's."
Dottie, peeking over the edge, /ruffs and wags her tail.
"Is it time for walkies?" asks Edan.
Dottie tilts her ears forward, wiggles.
"Please get your lead."
She skitters off.
"'Please'?"
Edan shrugs. "It works for Paige."
Hermann concedes.
Dottie patters back with the strap in her mouth.
Edan slides off, crouches. "Thank you~! Please give."
She drops the lead in his hand, sits.
"Good girl! Thank you!" He thumps her on the shoulder, clips it to her collar, and straightens. "Care to join us, Hermann?"
"Of course." He eases to standing. 
They exit; Hermann nabs the key from Edan's pocket, locks up, leads them off. "What about Dottie during the day?"
"I've already got permission from the head of the college and the building manager to keep her with me in the office and I've picked out an under-desk cushion for her and bought a muzzle I can pop on in case she worries people on the Tube or in the halls."
Dottie /whuffs.
"See? 
"Must you /insist on being right?"
"When I'm right, yea."
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