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In the fluorescent-lit bowels of the , Coursebook 734-B was not supposed to feel pain.

Its cover was standard-issue: reinforced polymer, stamped with the faded gold letters of COMPANION DYNAMICS & ETHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION . For three years, it had served its purpose—a silent archive of protocols, phylogenies, and pharmaceutical doses for anxious retrievers and aggressive parrots. It had been opened, annotated, and slammed shut by a thousand indifferent hands. pets coursebook