04-09-2017, 10:20 PM
"I'm sorry. I didn't catch your name, Doctor?"
The guarded question is posed neutrally, as much a query of social status, as a solicitation of information.
Doctor as in a lettered professional? Or Doctor as a conciliatory concession to rank. How he interprets and answers tells me as much.
He adjusts his cane and proffers his free hand in a gesture of a handshake. "Name's Vincent."
A concession of information to get the ball rolling.
"This little brat here answers to Winston, at least when he's not sitting around eating me out of house and home." He gestures at the Growlithe which has parked itself protectively at his feet and was surveying the assembly with interest.
It cocks it's head and issues a whine that, had it been able to speak, would loosely translate into "OH MY HONOR!"
"You know it's true, little guy."
The guarded question is posed neutrally, as much a query of social status, as a solicitation of information.
Doctor as in a lettered professional? Or Doctor as a conciliatory concession to rank. How he interprets and answers tells me as much.
He adjusts his cane and proffers his free hand in a gesture of a handshake. "Name's Vincent."
A concession of information to get the ball rolling.
"This little brat here answers to Winston, at least when he's not sitting around eating me out of house and home." He gestures at the Growlithe which has parked itself protectively at his feet and was surveying the assembly with interest.
It cocks it's head and issues a whine that, had it been able to speak, would loosely translate into "OH MY HONOR!"
"You know it's true, little guy."