This was completely crazy! I needed time to think about what was going on, but I couldn't just leave her here. This place was the epitome of decay. It was not fit for man nor beast, so whichever she was I couldn't just leave her here.
It was harder to get her to leave the shop then I had expected. To me it was run down and decrepit but to her it was the only home she knew. Still, I couldn't let her stay here by herself and I surely wasn't going to stay any longer then I had to. Thirty minutes later, after lots of quiet convincing and softly stroking her ears, I got her to get into my car. There was only one thing I hadn't accounted for...
"Grrrrrrr..."
I had just had my car into the repair shop two weeks ago, there was no reason for it to be making that noise, but every time I tried to turn over the engine it made that noise. Then it became clear what was really going on.
When I turned and looked at my passenger I noticed she was lurched forward and trying to intimidate the engine as if it were a beast prepping to attack us.
"You've never been in car before, have you?"
"Grrr.... What?" She said as if I had awoken her out of a trance.
"You've never been in a car before?"
I could tell from the confused look on her face that she hadn't ever seen a car before, let alone been in one.
"Don't worry; it's not going to hurt you. It's just a machine."
As the car started to move down the street she stopped growling but as I watched her out of the corner of my eye I could tell she was scared. She obviously felt foolish for trying to scare off an inanimate object and was terrified by the concept of moving so fast even though she was not herself moving.
"If you're scared you could lean your head up against my shoulder if that would make you feel better."
Before I even finished my sentence I could feel her rubbing up against me.
"I'm not scared master." She said with a trembling voice that made it clear she was lying, "Where are we going?"
"I already told you that." I said, trying to talk in as calm a voice as possible. She was scared and confused and even though I was even more surprised then she was I had decided I would take control of the situation and decide what to do.
"I know.... But I forgot."
"We're going back to my apartment."
"Apartment?"
"My home."
"Oh!" She said while trying to move herself even closer to me, "You're taking me home with you."
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