#brookswalker

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Icarus watched with amusement as Alpha trundled around the park with a virtual tree branch hanging from his jaws. He even let loose an uncharacteristic laugh as he’d watched the extra large mastiff tug it successfully off the small tree to which it had been previously attached. Now tired from his botanical pursuits he lay at Ike’s feet happily gnawing large chunks from the branch end then spitting them out onto the ground. It was cold enough out that each torn chunk made a satisfying snap as it came apart from the hunk of wood. A chime on his phone got him lost in a thread of emails, each one seeming to try his patience even more than the last. He was irritated enough to not notice the low warning growl coming from his canine companion, nor did he spy the ever growing snarl lifting up a red furred lip to expose pearlescent canines. It was not until an almighty squeal echoed that Icarus finally returned his attention to Alpha only to see him ripping savagely into a dog much smaller than himself. For a few moments Ike merely watched, proud of the way his companion could so easily rip through flesh, but as things progressed and it began to look not so good for the other dog, he finally called him back to himself. “Alpha, enough.” His words were crisp and full of authority, and as if a switch had flipped the large beast immediately let go of its prey and trotter cordially back to its master. From Icarus’s point of view it was pretty clear what had happened, the other dog had come sniffing around Alpha’s stick and had not heeded the bigger dogs warnings about continuing forward. With a gentleness he would not have shown another person, he draped his designer coat over the mauled pup, not wanting it to suffer more than it already was. @brookswalker​

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