~ Shards of Opal ~
Pointing at her father's precious undead pet, Junior declared, "Pee-zar. Bad, stinky puppy."
Carmilla knelt and scooped up the child before she had a chance to physically interact with the zombie pug.
"Don't be mean to Cezar," Carmilla scolded the child. (Although, in all honesty, she was not fond of Hector's pet either.)
"Bad and stinky," the child insisted. She still did not have the vocabulary to express 'I can sense something unnatural animating this creature and I find that disturbing' - which more accurately described her feelings on the matter.
"Don't be mean to Cezar," Carmilla repeated the instruction, hoping that her daughter might actually listen to her this time. "You're going to make your father cry."
~oOo~