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Val squeezed himself in between some cushions on the sofa, the long shag on a few of them felt oddly comforting in a time like this. His wings draped off of the couch like a velvet blanket, singed with defeat from the incident a couple of days ago. Val had put Vox in a broom closet, because he said he was not going to talk to him, and Valentino was willing to hold true on that… for now. With a sigh, Val shut his eyes to try to relax. Everything was fine until Val felt the illumination of red behind him and the looming sensation. He heard the lens refocus as he turned around. “Shok.wav?”
He was then face to face with the largest shark he had ever seen, Vox’s pet Shok.wav who Val tended to feed scraps to when Vox wasn’t looking. Shok.wav leaned into Val, his massive face bigger than what Val remembered. “Oh God, what are you doing here?” Val rolled his eyes and picked up his opera length off of the coffee table, lit the cigarette, and took a breath. “Right… Vox isn’t here. So you decided to bother me… Greeaaatt…” Val kicked his feet up onto the table.
Shok.wav nudged Val in the shoulder, pleading for some attention. “Ugh sometimes you’re just as bad as him, hm?” Val couldn’t help but crack a small smile and lean further into the couch. “What do you want?” Shok.wav nudged Val again, tipping Val’s hat off of his head. “That is not helping.” Val set his hat on the table and saw a small black cylinder with a silver metal button on it. Val brought it closer to his face, inspecting the little thing with a bulb in one end. “A flashlight??”
After pressing the silver button a beam of red light flashed into Val’s eye. With a yelp, the laser pointer fell from Val’s hand and into the other. “What the fuck, why do we have a laser?” Val faced the bulb towards the ground and pressed the button again, letting the beam hit the carpet in front of him. Within seconds, Shok.wav was pressed against the floor, attempting to bite at the beam.
With an amused chuckle, Val moved the beam away from Shok.wav, letting him follow the beam across the room. “Ooohh eres un lindo perrito-tiburón…” Val mumbled to himself as he continued to dart the beam from one end of the room to the other.