Fandom Island and Town

Although getting to visit with Colonel Bahamutt oh so handwavily and his newest caretaker this weekend had been a nice distraction, Sakaki was still terribly worried about how Tadakichi-san was doing. She was very tempted to just call Chiyo-chan for an update, but, also, she might be very distracted and disraught over the whole thing, so she didn't want to bother her. Instead, she would just have to sit and wait and try to distract herself further with some of her work for her vet program.

Of course, this distraction often meant her foolishly forgetting to keep a good distance from the cats, at one point just idly reaching out to pet on in passing, which meant that she was back in the vet's office for at least a small sliver of the day getting treated and patched up for cat bites and scratches again.

One of these days, maybe, she might actually get to pet one and not wind up draining the supplies of their first aid kit while she did it. Maybe.

Furnado is open!

Sakaki had had a rather eventful if handwavey weekend, and she felt like maybe she needed some time to process it all, but she had to go into work today, so hopefully she would have some downtime to do just that instead of hopping right into the next weird thing.

Because it had started out very well, once you got past the fact that one of her instructors was just a small shouty boy bent on evil, but that instructor had tasked her and Kiem with taking care of the dog, which was pretty much the best thing ever, even if she had other classes to get through first before she could join her classmate in watching the dog.

And then, on Saturday, something terrible had happened! The dog had just disappeared! They had spent the whole day, practically, looking for the puppy, searching high and low, but to no avail! Thankfully, they hadn't run into Small Shouty Instructor in the meantime, either, but since Saturday yeilded no results and, on Sunday, Sakaki was clearly distracted by apparently her Very Big and Adorable Birthday Party...there was a good chance that the dog was long gone by now, and their simple instructions for the class had failed. At least they would have until Friday to figure out how they would break the news...

It was while Sakaki was getting particularly sad about this detail and where the poor pup had gone, that she looked up to see a familiar face looking back at her from the puppy pen. She blinked, sitting up straight, hardly able to believe her eyes.

"Colonel Bahamutt!" she realized, dashing out from behind the counter where she sat to go to him. "You came back!"

This was not, in fact, Colonel Bahamutt, because Colonel Bahamutt had never actually existed. It was, however, a rather happy coincidence that there was a puppy at the shelter that almost exactly resembled Colonel Bahamutt to a T. Sakaki was just relieved that someone had apparently found the lost dog and done what any good person would do by returning him to the shelter so that either he could be cared for or his own could come find him, and that he seemed to be in very good shape, and that his adventure clearly hadn't been too traumatic, and once she was done showering the dog with affection, she texted Kiem to let him know that she found their charge, he was healthy and doing well at the animal shelter, and so they had not failed their assignment after all!

Well, not entirely.

Losing the dog in the first place wasn't great, but everything worked out in the end!

Furnado is open!