The dog started yipping at Lucia, a sharp excited bark. "Stop," Lorcan tried, speaking firmly and directly to the dog. "Quiet," he tried next, but apparently the dog wasn't trained to stop barking. Lorcan quit petting it, and said to Lucia, still a bit bemused, and now amused by Lucia's comment, "Never! I don't know where it came from, but if I let it go, I'm afraid it'll just get lost and never find its owner."
People were looking at the dog -- and at Lorcan -- with annoyance as the dog continued barking. "I'm sorry," he said to Lucia. "I think I'd better take it somewhere. Back the direction it came from." He was tempted to cast a silencing spell on it, but he didn't really approve of modifying the behavior of animals with spells -- he wasn't sure it would work. And it wasn't his dog.