It is impossible to say when he first appeared. A rather large and shaggy black dog, but with kind brown eyes... He was so used to being chased and not loved, beaten and thrown with stones, that he was completely incomprehensible when a person was found who treated him kindly. For the first time in his life, they petted him... They fed him and... They didn’t demand anything in return.

Every day the dog accompanied a person to his educational institution/work and waited behind the fence until he returned, and then accompanied him home. The dog accepted the man as his master, but did not dare to ask the man to come home because he knew that then his secret would be revealed... Something that he had been keeping inside himself for a very long time...

But nothing lasts forever and at one point the secret was revealed. The dog himself didn’t know how it happened, he was too happy and... Showed his true form, right in front of his man...

A tall, dark-haired man stands in the place where the dog had just been. His eyes are frightened, but so familiar. — My gracious master... I... — He stopped mid-sentence, looking down and not knowing how to explain.