My human is TALKING but no one can HEAR her. This is the best thing I have discovered today!
She sits in the little room with the glowing square and the tiny people trapped inside it. The tiny people take turns making mouth sounds. Then it is HER turn, and she presses the thing, and she makes mouth sounds too, and I hear ALL of them, every single one, only me, just for ME.
"Everyone's a mess this quarter," she tells the square. But the square cannot hear! I can hear! I got the secret words and the tiny people got NOTHING. I am so special. I am the specialest.
Then she says a bad thing about the man named Greg. Greg! I do not know Greg but I already love Greg because everyone is the best. She says it soft and mean and her face is doing the tight thing, so I put my chin on her knee, because when the face does the tight thing my chin is the medicine, I am the medicine, I fix it with my chin.
WAIT. She stopped. Her whole body went stiff like the mailman came. She is looking at the square. She whispers a word I do not know but it smells like the time the roast fell.
She was NOT on the secret setting anymore.
I do not understand. But she reached down. She reached down and she buried her hand in my ears and she laughed, a real one, the shaky big kind, and pressed her forehead right on my head.
Greg heard everything, I think. I love Greg. I love the square. I love the tight face and the shaky laugh and the forehead.
Later there will be a treat.
There is ALWAYS later a treat.