His dad's voice drew him up out of sleep, and Atreides' oversized white ears pricked up before his eyes had managed to drag themselves open to reveal eyes as green as his father's. He grinned upward at his dad, seeing him half-in, half-out of the den. "Morning Dad!" he chirped, wiggling out of the pile of puppy bodies to fling himself on his dad's paw to gnaw on it. Last one born - 'cept Narc but she didn't count because she was sick all the time and boring and might die anyway, whatever "die" meant - but first one up! Curious eyes tried to peer past his dad to the Outside. "D'you gotta go out'n do grownup stuff or can we play t'day?" He understood that sometimes his parents had to go out and he wasn't allowed to follow... but his favorite days were when dad got to stay home with them!
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