Star woke up from her afternoon nap. Two of her siblings were watching TV in the living room. They once again asked her if she was sure about leaving the family home and she once again repeated that yes, she was and yes, she would visit often. Her responses came out of her beak automatically at this point. Eventually, she grabbed her purse and headed out of the apartment.
The Luxoic family lived in one of the tall residential buildings near the centre of Ebott, like many other former residents of the Capital did. Since the cave walls and ceiling were no longer in the way, a lot of monsters had taken the opportunity to build higher and bigger than they ever could before. A few more buildings were currently under construction, slowly getting closer to the sky every day.
Star left this part of town to where individual houses were. Or rather, one specific house where the Dogi family (Star was familiar with the parents as they were part of the patrol) and two human siblings were waiting for her to start the visit.
A few puppies were running around the house and throwing a squeaky toy at each other.
"Kids, we have guests today", their father said.
They stopped running to say hi to the owl and humans, then decided to take their game outside.
"(Go watch the puppies, sweetie)", their mother said to her husband. "(I'll show Star and the humans around.)"
Dogaressa showed them almost everything in the living room and kitchen before Hisha's brother asked if there was any toilet in the house.
"(We just had one installed)", the dog monster replied. "(Now the place is just like a human house.)"
"Some monster houses have toilets too", Hisha said. "There was one at the bros'."
"Must be because they invite Frisk over sometimes", Star pointed out.
Everyone moved on to the bathroom (which smelt of wet dog) so the humans could check out the brand-new toilet, then went back into a small corridor. Further into it were two doors on either side.
"(Left side is our room, right side is puppies' room)", Dogaressa informed the others as she opened both doors.
Both rooms were pretty small. The master bedroom had a king-sized bed and battle-axes hanged up high enough on the wall that the kids couldn't reach. Incidentally, neither could Star.
The children's bedroom had tiny colourful pawprints all over the walls and toy chest and desk ; the bunk beds seemed to be the only thing in there that had been left untouched by the paint.
"I call dibs on the top bed!" the owl declared.
To her surprise, no-one contested.
"(We still have some things to pack, but the house will be yours in a few days.)"
"Oh by the way, my parents will be paying my share of the rent for now", Star explained, "but once that whole joining-the-police thing is done, I'll be able to pay it myself."
The dog nodded in understanding.
"(The human police didn't do anything when our puppy got dognapped)", she said. "(I don't trust them. But I trust Undyne. If she says we can keep every puppy safe by all becoming police officers, then my hubbie and I will be the best police dogs. You can be the best police owl.)"
"I will, m'am", Star promised.