King Arthur Drabble: Domesticated

[amari_z]

Title: Domesticated
Word Count: 100
Notes: For ka100 challenge 37a, "cats and dogs"





"What is that?"

Arthur kept petting it. "The visiting commander's son's dog."

That was not a dog. Lancelot remembered dogs. Dogs were great, fierce predators—not over-eager, shameless, tail-wagging things.

"Isn't he lovely?" Then, apparently speaking directly to it, "Yes, yes you are."

Lancelot grimaced at the deranged tone. The slobbering creature was licking all over Arthur's face.

Quite as stupid as it looked, it turned to Lancelot hopefully and bounded forward, tongue lolling. Lancelot had the door slammed behind him before it got within a foot.

He shuddered as he walked away. He wouldn't be kissing Arthur anytime soon.

Comments

[amari-z.livejournal.com]

Well, semi only means a partially, not half or anything. He does, after all, live behind walls these days and can play nice--when he wants to. ;)

[shelley-stone.livejournal.com]

Operative words: "when he wants to". Unpredictable is always sexy to me :))