Akilia
32th day of Spring, 12th of bell, 513 |
A girl and a red cream colored dog enjoyed each other's company in the woods of the Bronze woods. They both laid side by side in a small meadow the scent of wildflowers filling the air. But where they're were flowers their was pollen, the dog sneezed then rubbed her nose with her fore paws.
Akilia smiled, "pollen got your nose Ginger?" She asked before laughing. The dog looked as if she was about to reply when a fit of sneezing overcame her. Akilia laughed harder, rubbing Ginger between her ears.
Cinnamon Akilia's packing pony who was tied to a tree nearby and grazing nayed. Akilia turned her head towards the pony and waved a little, the pony snorted and went back to grazing. Akilia rolled her eyes, she'd taken all the saddlebags and other heavy things off of the pony only leaving on Cinnamon's halter, bit and bridle.
Akila sat there for awhile petting Ginger looking up into the open blue sky. She wore her usual simple gray blue shirt, dark blue pants and black leather boots. Her backpack was over by Cinnamon but she was wearing her rucksack snugly around her waist. Then she sat up with an idea, the dark haired girl stood and looked down at her dog who in turn looked up at her friend.
"I'm going to teach you how to sit, come and stay. Alright girl?" Akilia told Ginger giving the dog a bright smile. Ginger laid her head on her paws like "great, I can't wait..."
"Okay, come on Ginger, girl. Get on up. Let's get started."
Ginger reluctantly got to her paws giving Akilia a "what now?" look.
"First we'll have you sit. Okay girl can you manage that?" Akilia pointed down a finger at Ginger, "Sit." She commanded. Ginger laid down giving the small girl a defiant "make me." expression.
"No, Ginger." Akilia growled annoyed picking Ginger up and setting the dog back on her feet. "Okay, now sit, you."
Ginger didn't do anything, she just stayed standing giving Akilia stare for stare. "I'll give you a treat if you do it." Akilia said encouragingly pulling out a bit of beef jerky out of the rucksack and holding it over Ginger's nose. "If you sit I'll giv-" Her sentence stopped short when Ginger simply jumped up and grabbed the jerky out of Akilia's hand and gobbled it up. Akilia gasped in surprise gazing at her empty hand then balled it into a fist and gave Ginger a hard look. Her temper was flaring.
She pointed at Ginger a tad bit angrily, "sit!" She huffed. Ginger tilted her head her showing a sheepish doggy smile and sat. Akilia beamed and pulled out a bit of jerky. "Good girl! Very good girl!"
Ginger reached up to grab the jerky but Akilia moved it. "Stay sitting then I'll give you this." Akilia ordered waving the jerky teasingly in front of the dog just out of reach. Ginger sat back down on her haunches unhappily and waited patiently in a doggy pout as if saying "fine but just this once. Hand it over."
And Akilia did, smiling. Finally! And if this training goes well I won't have to chase her through Syliras anymore when we walk through the market as soon as she smells meat. "Again." Akilia said and this time Ginger sat finally putting two and two together, if she sits she gets beef jerky if she doesn't she gets yelled at. Akilia went over this a few more times until Ginger got the hang of it.
Akilia took a few paces back and Ginger followed her. "No." Akilia said pointing back to the spot Ginger was before, "go back and when I call you come. Okay Ging?" Ginger cocked her head then went back and stood close enough to where she previously was. "Okay, now sit."
Ginger sat looking expectantly at her friend. "Stay." Akilia put her hand forward indicating to Ginger to stay. Ginger ran up to Akilia and jumped on the girl knocking her to the ground. Ginger stood over Akilia and barked before shoving her face into the rucksack gobbling up as much as the dog could of the beef jerky. Akilia laid there dazed before pushing Ginger off and whacking her on the head with her hand.
Ginger froze then whined, and amazingly enough walked over head down and tail tucked back to the spot that she had been ordered to stay in and plopped down and sat. Head lowered eyes looking up apologetically. Akilia on the other hand stood up slowly her eyes fixed on the hand that hit Ginger in horror. "I'm sorry..." She whispered feeling bad. She glanced up at the dog and then pulled out another piece of jerky. "Umm...stay." Akilia ordered, walking a few steps back then she crouched down, "come Ging! Come on girl!" The dog ran over but took care not to jump all over Akilia and knock her down. She took the jerky out of Akilia's hand and began eating it, Akilia softly petting her. "I'm sorry Ging."
After they worked on that trick a few more times, Akilia took a leash attached to a tied rope and put it over Ginger's head. "This here is my solution of keeping you from misbehaving in the food markets. I already had to pay more than a few gold mizas for your outrageous appetite there. Ginger gave a doggy shrug as if saying "sorry, but I couldn't resist".
Akilia the moment Akilia began to walk Ginger ran forward jerking Akilia forward and forcing the girl to jog after the dog to keep upright. Akilia found her balance and got her other hand on the leash and yanked it. Ginger gave a gurgled yelp as she was thrown backward landing on her side dazed. "Sorry!" Akilia called running up to Ginger, "I didn't mean to pull so hard." Ginger got up shaking out her fur a bit and looked up at Akilia a jolly smile on her face tongue hanging out as she panted a little. Akilia wrapped the leash around her hand until it was so short that the only option Ginger had was walking right next to her. Every time Ginger strained forward when they walked, Akilia would pop the dog on her head with her hand which discourage the dog from pull for a short while. But every time Ginger walked in step with Akilia after she gave the command of "heel" the girl would award Ginger with a small treat of a little beef jerky.
They worked on this a few more times before Akilia removed the leash with the rope collar and gave Ginger a well earned break for the day. She had been training Ginger for about an hour or two and they were both thoroughly tired after it. Akilia sat and watched Ginger goof around running about the meadow sniffing things chasing things before the dog came back to Akilia and tried to climb her furry self into the girl's lap. Akilia laughed and petted her friend then laid back looking up at the sky content. |
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by Akilia Dosert on April 7th, 2013, 8:42 pm 
