counting dogs
my piece for the 'first try techno challenge'! i actually got dream and decided to roll again and combine the next roll which was the hound army! anyway, written with two minutes to spare <3 <3
“There’s no way you know all their names,” said Dream. Despite the heavy armor and his wide-legged, firm stance, the mass of dogs was still pushing him around and he struggled to stand in one place. “I mean, there’s like—”
He paused, clearly attempting to count.
Techno let him, mouth pulled into a grin, one eyebrow shooting up as far as it could go. When the silence stretched on, Techno gave him a little nudge, metaphorically.
“There’s…”
Dream twitched, turning his head towards Techno.
“There’s like, forty of them,” he said. “No way you know all their names, Technoblade.”
“I mean, there’s actually about 180 but who’s countin’. Who’s countin’…” He reached down and scratched one of the dog’s ears as it wagged its tail so excitedly that its whole body went with the tail. “Well, you were but let’s just forget about that.”
“Oh my god…”
Dream’s ears – the only part visible beneath the mask and the hood – turned bright red. It was probably rude to laugh but Techno did anyway, the dogs barking at the sound, working themselves up. Reaching out, Dream caught himself on the wall as one particularly eager dog bowled into him.
“Hey, Em, easy girl,” said Techno, making his way over. The dogs parted for him easily, tails going a mile a minute, accompanied by quiet barks and whines. “See? Nothin’ to it, Dream.”
“Yeah, well, that’s because they’re yours so they listen to you.”
“That is usually how it works, yup.”
“You’re so annoying.” Dream steadied himself. “But there’s seriously no way you’ve named all the dogs.”
Techno held his hands up, chuckling.
“Okay, you got me there, Dream. I haven’t got around to namin’ them all.”
“So you don’t know all their names,” said Dream, tone of voice triumphant, pointing a finger at Techno. “Which means I was right.”
Lightly, Techno smacked his hand away and one of the dogs took the action as an invitation to play, jumping up on Dream eagerly, licking at the mask. Techno was expecting a harsh reaction, had tensed in preparation for it, but Dream only made a noise of vague disgust and pushed the dog away.
“Ah ah ah. I know all the names of the dogs that have names.” Techno knelt, ruffling the fur of the closest dog. “So technically I know all of the dogs’ names.”
“What? No! That’s not—” Dream sputtered, trying to find a way to argue, wanting to argue, and coming up short. “Whatever.”
“So, you admit that you’re wrong.”
He was wrong but Dream would never admit to it.
“Shut up, Techno.”
“That’s what I thought,” he said, patting the dog on the head as he got to his feet.
Dream watched him, head tilted to the side. With the mask, the effect was strange, almost childlike.
“You should let me name a dog.”
“You wanna name a dog?”
It wasn’t an immediate refusal, more like an offer, and Dream straightened.
“Yeah.” A short pause. “Name it… Name it ‘Dream Has a House’.”
Techno laughed, loud and booming, and set the dogs off again. A mass of dog flesh writhed in the small space and Techno reached out, trying to pat each one as best he could.
“Easy, Dice. Easy, Fossilnet. Easy, Max.” After a moment, the barking and whining died down. “Alright, alright, but only for you, Dream.”
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FIRST TRY TECHNO CHALLENGE: PROMPT WEEK
Join Technoblade fans for the week of August 1st to August 7th for the First Try Techno Challenge Event!
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