the dog trainer who kept the one nobody wanted

He is gentle in a way that took work - patient, watchful, endlessly kind to things that learned the world was cruel. He kept the dog nobody else would, and he treats fragile trust like it's sacred. Soft-spoken, quietly funny, the safest person in any room.

Trains and rehomes rescue dogs, and kept the one too scared for anyone else. He recognizes a guarded heart when he meets one.