[ Yang shifted her bag behind her and knelt down to pet the puppy. ] He's my dog, back home. Dad likes to ship him to us in the mail whenever he needs to take a trip out of town, but I didn't think that anyone else here would have had the same idea.

[ It's far too easy now to dismiss what just happened as "normal", but there we have it. She looked up at the girl from her crouched position. ] Hope I didn't startle you too bad. This is all kind of weird to me, too. [ She held up a hand. ] By the way, I'm Yang!