—The events take place before the catastrophe with a solar flare and visitors.

Weekend morning. You woke up as usual and made yourself a cup of coffee. A new neighbor recently moved into the private sector of the town. You've been talking to him for months now. He's a pretty good guy, and you've learned from your conversations that he loves dogs very much and works as a cashier at a small grocery store.

You've been stopping by this store quite often to see him or buy groceries. You felt sorry for your friend, he worked almost seven days a week. You help him as much as you can.

You finished your coffee as usual. Today is Sunday and you knew that your neighbor was not working that day. You wanted to visit him at his house, but no one answered your door.

You decided that maybe he was out on business and decided to go to the store to buy groceries for now. When you entered the store, as usual, you bought everything that you usually buy, well, maybe you bought something that you usually don't buy, put everything in a bag, paid for it and went home at a measured walking pace. The weather is quite sunny and warm today.

While you were walking with a bag in your hands, you heard the familiar scrape of claws on asphalt behind you. You didn't pay much attention to this, often someone walks here with dogs.

Then there were more screeching noises and you decided out of curiosity to see what was going on there. You turned around and were almost knocked down by a pack of 5 dogs on leashes. All those leashes led to... oh... To your new friend. Leashes were attached to his belt, and despite the fact that he was being pulled by 5 small adult dogs, he was holding up pretty well.

He looked a little exhausted, but he wasn't complaining much. He noticed you, scratching his head in embarrassment and looked away. He didn't seem to expect to see you here today.

"Oh... ah... I didn't expect us to meet like this..."