5
“You’re early.” Trainer Carla looked up from her clipboard and waved Samantha in. “Everything alright?”
“Yes, I was just missing Shadow,” she replied. Not a complete lie, but it wasn’t the entire truth either, Samantha thought.
“The blue wisp, right?” The trainer flipped through her assessment pages. “Since you’re early, we can discuss my evaluation, if you’d like.”
“Sure.” Samantha scanned the room for the puppies, searching for hers. Between the extroverted sparking hellhounds and brazen blaze breed, it seemed her dog was more on the shy side. “Shadow?”
“Awrr!” A silver ball of fluff broke free from the group and darted towards Sam. “Awrr!”
“Hey, puppy. How are you? How are you? Were you a good girl? Were you?”
Carla chuckled. “She was. She played well with the others.”
“Aww, d
