[Anders totally wanted to be interrupted from his musing by a bouncy black and brown puppy, right? Because there's a stocky little Houndour frolicking through the woods ahead of her new trainer, and once she spots the pair she approaches them excitedly to say hello.
She's followed in very short order by her trainer, who starts to admonish her as soon as he sees she's pestering someone, and whose correction sputters out almost as soon as he's started, mid-word as he sees who, exactly, she's pestering.
There's a long, awkward moment as Hawke stares, realizes he's staring and shifts his gaze away - to the trees, to the weird little cat, to his own new, funny-looking puppy...
This day has been one long, exhausting series of surprises - cut off from the Fade, some strange woman claiming to be his mother, a new puppy that he didn't ask for or particularly want, obnoxiously cheerful background music...and now, of all the possible people he could have run into in the woods, it's one toward whom his feelings are so mixed he hasn't even begun to work them out.
Fortunately - or not - his obnoxious mouth can be trusted to pick up the slack when his brain is busy - or, in this case, rendered temporarily non-functional as it shuts down and performs a manual restart.]
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She's followed in very short order by her trainer, who starts to admonish her as soon as he sees she's pestering someone, and whose correction sputters out almost as soon as he's started, mid-word as he sees who, exactly, she's pestering.
There's a long, awkward moment as Hawke stares, realizes he's staring and shifts his gaze away - to the trees, to the weird little cat, to his own new, funny-looking puppy...
This day has been one long, exhausting series of surprises - cut off from the Fade, some strange woman claiming to be his mother, a new puppy that he didn't ask for or particularly want, obnoxiously cheerful background music...and now, of all the possible people he could have run into in the woods, it's one toward whom his feelings are so mixed he hasn't even begun to work them out.
Fortunately - or not - his obnoxious mouth can be trusted to pick up the slack when his brain is busy - or, in this case, rendered temporarily non-functional as it shuts down and performs a manual restart.]
...Lovely day for a walk in the woods, isn't it?