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[Pluto waddles off the bed to go over and follow the strange new lady that daddy let into the house. Hopefully with how he goes sniffing at a cabinet she'll be able to understand that they're in there.
Axel, in the meantime, sits chewing on the spoon, staring at his lap, and thinking about what's happening here. People that don't even know him very well are actually bothering to take care of him. ...It's weird. While more of them call in, he answers and pretty soon, without him even realizing it, all the soup's gone. ...Huh. He might've been hungrier than he thought.]