What’s the best part about interdimensional time loops that take place on a desecrated Earth eons in the past? The sights? The new experiences? The friends we meet? The strange time loop experiments contingent on the affection we share with one another?

Nah. It’s definitely the pizza.

Blitz loves pepperoni. I can hardly put the box down before he tears the cardboard open and ravenously bites into the soft dough. I can hear the happy growls and cheese splattering everywhere from across my damn ship.

I’m a bigger fan of cheese. Extra cheese, at that. I love it about as much as Blitz does; I’m just a little more restrained in showing it. I’ll sit at my table, chuckling to myself as I watch him destroy the pizza I gave him, the tendrils on his tail waving back and forth as it wags with enjoyment.

This time, however, I noticed my foundry appeared to be malfunctioning. The nozzle was not scanning back and forth in its normal soothing rhythm. Fixing it was simple, though the yellow slimy residue on the power cable didn’t make it pleasant.

I returned to the sight of him on his hind legs, his face buried in my pizza box. “Blitz!”

It was empty besides a few splotches of cheese and yellow slime on the cardboard. He ate it all. I looked back at him with a clenched jaw. He knew what that look meant. He did something bad. He knew what he was doing would get that reaction. It’s not like this was his first rodeo with a pissed off Dexy.

But even a pissed off Dexy can’t resist Blitz’s foolproof method of inciting forgiveness.


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