“This is Mina Small. She’s here for…” I put her down on the counter and covered her ears, which was silly, but I didn’t want her to know what was going to happen. “She’s getting spayed,” I whispered.
“Today? Are you sure? I didn’t think…” She looked at the appointment book in front of her. “Oh, I guess Dr. Ingram must have set this up after I left. We haven’t seen her before, have we?”
The receptionist was being nice to me, so I didn’t ask, “Who, Dr. Ingram?” “No, but she’s had her shots.” I held up the tags.
“What does this one say?”
“Excuse me?” I’d never paid much attention to them.
“This has something engraved in a foreign language.”
“Oh. I have no idea. I just thought they were both about her shots.”
“The silver one is, but the gold one…I haven’t seen one like that before.”
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