Good Girl (With Apologies to Pratchett)

General GTG Fan Fiction
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A Sentinel Comics micro-fiction

After spending the night scouring Rook City for Heartbreaker, Setback and Expatriette were getting breakfast at Big Bob’s 24-Hour Crime-Free Diner.*

“Mmm, this chicken is good. You should try some, Amanda!” Setback said.

“Um, no thanks, Pete,” she said as she watched sauce dribble onto his costume.

“Muit mourself,” he said, mouth full, and lowered a piece of chicken under the table.

Chomp.

“Anyway, we need to regroup with Slim and Faye and see if they’ve found anything on Heartbreaker.”

“Good idea! Hey, did the crime scene at the docks have any leads?”

A low whine came from under the table.

“Aw, too bad.”

He lowered another piece below the table.

Chomp.

“You know, you shouldn’t feed her at the table, Pete. It breeds bad behaviour. Next thing you know she’ll be demanding food from you every time you eat.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t mind that," Alpha said.

*Most diners and other eateries in Rook City were, of course, anything but free of crime. This particular joint, however, had been a favourite of Boris “The Bear” Sokolov, and so it still enjoyed an exemption from the Organization’s activities.

Author's Note

I read a scene like this one in Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay featuring Carrot and Angua, and thought it would be fun to write this one inspired by it featuring Sentinel Comics’ favourite werewolf.

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Good start, but even if you’re just writing a single scene, I think it needs more if an ending than it has.

(Also why is Alpha under the table? She’s usually mostly a person…)

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Thanks. Perhaps. Admittedly, I’ve not really any desire to continue it beyond this. As mentioned, it’s just a silly little aping of a Pratchett scene.

This, too, is really just due to it being a pastiche of a particular Pratchett scene. That scene includes the character Angua, who’s a werewolf like Alpha, though she often transforms into the shape of a wolf and acts like a dog while doing so, whereas Alpha, I don’t think, ever just turns into a wolf—it seems that she always turns into a wolfish humanoid form.

Anyways, Alpha’s under the table because Angua was in the scene that I’m aping—I know it’s out of character, but again, it’s a pastiche.