Her name is Katie and she is a necromancer in the Guard Dogs series by Freya Faust.
She's multiracial black, with longish black curly hair and brown eyes. Was a wrestling champ through school but at a nebulous mid-late 20s has gotten a softer body (and humps). She wears big fluffy light colored sweaters at work and graphic tees at home, and she loves dogs! Her mug is paw print, her desk calendar is dog themed, and she has four (extremely illegal) undead zombie dogs in her home named after star trek characters. She put them together out of roadkill, and she loves them very much.
And she is going to be the first mage in history to crack the problem of true human resurrection. (Or more likely, get busted for necromancy and disappeared by the magic cops)
You weren't kidding about there being absolutely no art of her. Oh well no one to tell me I got her wrong
everyone talking about what dog breed kosmo would be. i stand in the middle of the room and show a picture of my dog. “that’s irl kosmo,” i say. the crowd claps.
There's something about walking my dog when I'm deep in the pit.
About the way she whines and leads me to her harness when I can't keep track of time, and bounces in excitement until her face is at my eye level-- slightly lower, when I can't stand straight-- and pushes her nose through the harness loop.
About the way she pulls me-- not yanks, though on those nights my grip is easy enough to break-- to keep me moving forward at an easy pace, somehow so much faster than I can trudge under my own power.
About crossing paths with neighbors and neighborhood cats, with seeing bats flutter overhead, with feeling the wind on my face when I would have barricaded myself in my room, alone.
About the second-hand joy of watching her sniff every shrub, chase every rabbit, whine at every cat. And even if I can't love myself right then I can love her so much it hurts.
If I've done nothing else worth doing, at least I've taken my dog for a walk.
Can’t believe this little nugget is one year old today! While she’s only ten pounds now, when we got her she was just 3 pounds and a few inches tall and I can’t believe something so small ever existed 😭❤️