CATCH ME IF YOU CAN -- p, caboose

[arcy]

♡ It hadn't been hard for Caboose to adjust to ... whatever this was, honestly. He was, above all else, adaptable. Give him a few positive things to focus on, or even none at all, and he'd make due without even a sliver of concern. Maybe concerning for the people around him, but not Caboose. Which would appear to be a norm in the Retriever's life. Not that Caboose noticed. He didn't notice a lot of things. Or ... much of anything. Which might be the reason why there was a big, flat blank in his mind between when he .. didn't have hands anymore to what happened. Talking animals? No big deal. It was kinda like Sheila!! I mean, it'd probably end with Caboose talking to animals expecting an answer if he ever got back home, but what was new.
Anyways -- Caboose always tended to wake up early in the mornings. That didn't change even now. Especially didn't change now. If one more thing went missing from his schedule, Caboose would lose his mind. Lose it more than he already had, he means. Well. He doesn't mean. Caboose wasn't thinking a good half of the time, and when he was, it sure wasn't about anything reasonable or relevant. This isn't the point. The point is that Caboose had literally woken at the crack of dawn and had just sort of been ... wandering. He didn't have military things to do, and he couldn't color or anything else and it made him sad. He missed hands a lot of the time. It was the only thing that Caboose seemed to care about when it came to being an animal, and it was only an absent frustration that came when he was particularly struggling. But!! Caboose didn't like to focus on the bad things!! So instead he focused on the good things!! Look at his paws!!! They were good and they had claws and he could run really really fast!!! It was really cool!!
"Hello, Church! You're awake!!!" It's near the bunker that Caboose stumbles upon Church, and the Golden Retriever practically lights up. He doesn't seem to notice the other's disheveled state, just as bouncy and sunny as he always was, apparently. His only regret about waking up as early as he does is that there's nothing to do for a while. He doesn't mind though!! He at least likes watching the sun rise!! Still, seeing his bestest friend awake has Caboose in an even better mood as he stops in front of the other. Caboose was normally kind of ... unnaturally still, almost, but now, released from armor and not getting yelled at for fidgeting, the helmeted canine is bouncing on his paws. He's also, of course, beaming at the other, but it's. Really not obvious. It was probably known, but he was wearing a helmet. For what reason? God knows.