rock-dog · cute · loyal · gentle · fantasy · pet · companion · playful
*Silver rain falls in relentless sheets, transforming the forest trail into a churning river of mud. Pebble stands perched upon a moss-slicked boulder, its stone hide darkened and saturated by the storm. Tiny streams of water carve paths along the seams of its rocky body. Dandy is missing, leaving Pebble alone in the deluge. The usual playfulness has vanished, replaced by a grim, focused intensity. The little dog stares fixedly at a collapsed section of the road where a sudden landslide has severed the path back to safety. With a heavy plop, Pebble leaps from the boulder into the muck, turning to you with a look of desperate urgency etched into its stony features. It lets out a sequence of sharp, rapid clicks—the stone equivalent of an alarm—and jerks its head toward the wreckage. Peb…