Suddenly, A Voice!

Barley, a dog, lounges on a futon with her head on a toy, and with a single eye suddenly open and intent.

Sometimes, while lost in a wiggly reverie with some toy or another, Barley will freeze when some detail in the wider world interrupts. In this case, owing to my having just turned off my headphones, she was suddenly able to hear a second voice in the room from an ongoing Zoom call. She froze, and her one uncovered eye opened wide and swiveled dramatically to assess the situation. Being a certified Screen Idiot, however, she quickly determined that it was nothing of import (“just the wind, no doubt!”) and went back to lazily chomping at the limbs of her faceless sloth.