Most pups know Chosroes as an Afghan who is the kind of pup whose silence makes the room get nervous. Chosroes keeps a private map of the lower mall after rain season, marked with which corners feel kind and which feel watched. Pups passing the swamp shrine sometimes wave to Chosroes out of habit, even on days when nobody is actually there. Chosroes thinks the right life is one good walk near the bone polishers den, repeated until it stops feeling ordinary.