This is a continuation of the scene from War’s End, the third book of a trilogy in progress I’ve been posting from for several weeks. Coralie was on a spaceship, threatened by strangers, and has suddenly found herself tumbling through a swamp with her baby. Her dog, Bounce, has just found her. The dog is a pocket herder, a small breed capable of rudimentary telepathy with some humans.
She wasn’t alone! “Where are the others?”
The little dog cocked her ears, and when Coralie listened, she managed to sort out human voices from the cacophony around her. One, deeper than the others–Kelty?–was calling names. “Coralie here,” she shouted, and he answered at once.
“Are you all right?”
Well, at least she knows that whatever happened, it happened to the pilot, too.
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Hmm, I’m glad she’ll have someone there to help her with whatever is going to come at them! Great six, enjoying the unfolding of this story.
And she’ll need all the help she can get.
Oh, ho! And I hope we get to know more about Kelty…Glad she’s not alone. And there’s nothing like a good “marooned” story. 😉
He was introduced quite a bit earlier in the story–a friend and former foster son of her baby’s father. He’s around 50, a generation older than Coralie.
Thank goodness for that dog! Good six!
Yes, Bounce has a major role to play.
The dog is cool! Liked your six!
The breed is based on my first Sheltie.
That dog sounds so cute, I picture a more useful version of Toto. Very nice job. I’m looking forward to reading more. I’ve always been a sucker for marooned story lines.
Think more border collie shrunken to Sheltie size (15″ at shoulder) and a solid sable (gold with some black overlay.) I described her in the second book.
Hooray for Bounce! The dog’s a hero and friend.
You’re getting ahead!
Oh that’s a relief. And I love the idea of a partially telepathic dog. I was brought up with Welsh collies and they seem to be but they are just really good at reading body language. 🙂
I had a Sheltie that, when I was tying to break him of car chasing, would know which cars I was ready for him to go after. When I accidentally shut the 40′ longline in my car door, he took the next opportunity to chase the target car when I didn’t realize the line was anchored, and flipped himself head over paws.Don’t know if he actually read my mind, but he inspired dogs that did. It’ll be August before I get to that, though.
Oh, good! She isn’t alone! I was worried about her. 🙂
Thank goodness she’s not alone … as long as those voices are all on her side!