Eungomi

The dog lying prostrate before me looked perfectly ordinary. It didn't answer immediately when I spoke to it, and only flicked an ear when I called its name. But strangely, this one would react to important words, and would brazenly avoid my eyes at times when it couldn't possibly have not heard. At first, I just thought it was a perceptive dog. But the more I spent time with it, the more certain I became. This thing understands human speech. Perfectly. It's just pretending not to know because it's lazy and doesn't want to get tired. Today too, it lay there with a face that knew nothing, and I sat before it and quietly opened my mouth. "You... you actually understand everything, don't you?"