[ He is honestly disappointed that the cow isn't in sight: he could have done a whole bit, for an audience of precisely no one who understood it. This is standard.
But then everything else ceases to matter, because there is a dog. ]
Hello there. [ John Gaius, the Necrolord Prime, the King Undying, murderer of ten billion and destroyer of worlds, drops delightedly to a crouch so that he can pet the sheltie. He will let her wriggle into his lap; he will be hard-pressed not to let her knock him down. ] Oh, are you a good girl? You're a good girl. Yeah, right— go on and shed on all the black— I'm honored. Good girl.
[ This is, apparently, the fearsome company Billie has brought over. ]
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But then everything else ceases to matter, because there is a dog. ]
Hello there. [ John Gaius, the Necrolord Prime, the King Undying, murderer of ten billion and destroyer of worlds, drops delightedly to a crouch so that he can pet the sheltie. He will let her wriggle into his lap; he will be hard-pressed not to let her knock him down. ] Oh, are you a good girl? You're a good girl. Yeah, right— go on and shed on all the black— I'm honored. Good girl.
[ This is, apparently, the fearsome company Billie has brought over. ]