Stavanger Bay dark before the dawn

Stupid little puppy was stubborn like a mule, it seemed -- he replied with a 'nuh' instead of repeating the word that Charon told him to. "You gotta repeat the word, not say no to everything," Charon said with a roll of his eyes and a dramatic sigh -- this puppy so dumb, he didn't even understand how to repeat after someone else.

"Well, fine, we'll lower the bar, since you're being dumb. Say 'nuh' then. Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh." Charon crossed his paws and waited for Jorunn to repeat this word. He'd already said it, so he couldn't pretend like he didn't know how to. They would work into 'ma' from 'nuh', or whatever.