day 3!

It was raining when Marya woke up, and for a few minutes she just lay in bed and listened to it. How very normal it sounded. Oscar twitched at the foot of the bed, probably dreaming about chasing cats or calling up some ancestral memory of riding on an old firetruck. When Marya was little, her dad told her that dalmatians became traditional firehouse dogs because they were sometimes born deaf, which really came in handy when one of your purposes in life was to ride in the front seat of a firetruck, right in front of the huge warning bell that the trucks used to have. Marya always felt bad for the dogs, not being able to hear.

( And then she got Oscar, or rather her girlfriend at the time foisted him off on her )

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