Thunder Dome into the unknown

He scuttled back until his bum hit something squishy, warm, and - and talking! He scooted in a circle with another yelp, and a squint, until the other pup came into blurry focus.

Oh! Oh. Two swirled into focus, different enough they couldn't be the same, but same enough he almost went cross-eyed making sense of them, until the boy reached out his paw - and that was distraction enough.

Isaiah stared at the other boys huge toes and almost peed himself. Almost. Instead he reached out with a shaky paw until he got close enough to hit the boy's paw with the quickest bap! before he scooted back.

The other pup seemed not so focused on him anymore, and that was good, good, good by him. It would give him more time to figure out just what these other children were all about.