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A mostly quiet building.
There are dogs waiting for their owners, current or future or former, and an examination room, and a wooden counter between the office proper and the waiting room.
It's quiet, now quite a while since sunset.
The only employee is doing inventory.
"More food and less food is amounts of food."
He points to the bowl.
"Is that amount water good kobold?"
"If kobold need more water, Scott want kobold have more water. Scott have water, give kobold water, kobold take water, kobold have water. Understand?"
"I ilva water." She closes her eyes briefly and a little stream of water appears in midair over the bowl for a second and then stops.
"Kobold want say why came here? No my house, my...world. World is all places, here and there. If no ilva."
She sighs and curls up tight under the fur again.
"I say, kobold home kobolds? Is, kobold home kobolds."
"Was, I home, kobolds. Kobolds go, I go, see more kobolds. Go, more go, more go. Will be see more kobolds, go see."
"Was, ...that. That come I, that ilvak I." She's even more unhappy about this. "Ilvak painful, kobolds say I go, I no come kobolds."
"I go. I homeless. I no happy. More later, more no happy. Later now, more more more no happy, need kobolds, no kobolds."
"Want no stay. No understand ilva. Ask ilva no here, no there - go, no come. Ilva do come here." She shrugs, miserably.
"Understand who new person is meet. More more is many. Scott and mom and kobold is not many, is few. Outside home is many humans. Why kobold meet many kobolds? Your home kobolds want meet for give food, for take water? Give and take is trade."
The kobold can have hugs.
He lets her lean against him, petting her fur gently.
She shudders, almost violently, when he starts petting her, and quietly starts crying.
She mutters something in her own language that sounds like a disagreement, but she doesn't move; in fact she's staying very still.
Her breath catches when he moves away - not quite a gasp - but she still doesn't move.
They'll just sit quietly like this for a while.
His mother doesn't interrupt.
He gets up, and comes back with sliced peaches and a sandwich.
"Kobold can eat if want. Scott will eat."
And so he has his sandwich.
Up to the kobold, really. He finishes his dinner quietly, and only gets up again to wash his hands.
He pets the kobold.
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