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Rocket

Rocket's name was, by all accounts, aspirational rather than descriptive. Most days he ambles. Every so often, for reasons nobody has identified, he lives up to it completely and takes off like he means it.

The name was aspirational. Most days Rocket ambles, at a pace that would embarrass the name on a form. Then, with no warning anybody has learned to read, he goes, and completely earns it.

Catching him on one of those days is luck. Owners who have seen it describe it the way people describe seeing a fox in daylight.