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Rose: Understanding the Captors

It wasn't much longer that Rose had to lay in the dark, curled up in a ball of fur in a cage, holding onto a strange furry hand in some attempt to comprehend. Comprehend why she couldn't speak, or do almost anything of use whatsoever.

The light, when it came, was sudden. Someone had come into the room. Even with her almost human-strength hearing, Rose could tell that whoever it was was wearing business-type shoes.

As her eyes adjusted, Rose looked over at the person in the cage next to her. She was a girl, with white short fur, long ears and a tufted tail. It took Rose a minute to realize the girl was half bunny. Rose smiled.

The girl, apparently, hadn't known that the newcomer was half fox, and tensed immediately. Rose held onto her hand tightly, though.

The man in the white labcoat who had entered the room looked smug. There was something about his look that petrified her, and she couldn't stop staring at him until he turned away from them.

Something in the way he looked at Rose, the bunny girl, a centuar girl on the other side of bunny, and a tan bunny girl on the other side of that was all that Rose needed.

She was not a prisoner. He was not her captor. He was her owner.

Rose shuddered, and the labcoat man, having gotten something off of the counter on the far side of the room, turned and walked back to the cages, walked right up to Rose.

"Well, well, now. My little prize is up at last." The man said, his voice gravelly and yet sickly smooth. "Good. Time to get you... oriented to how this place works." He said with a grin.

He held a remote in his hand.

"Now, sit pretty!" he called out.

Rose frowned. And then spasmed, as an electric current went through her body. The man let go of the button, and Rose gasped for air.

"Now, we'll try this again. Sit pretty, little foxy!"

Rose sat up on her knees, tears streaming down her face. She had had to let go of the hand of the bunny girl, and she could feel lingering biting tingles throughout every part of her body that she moved.

"Good, good." the man said, and then walked around the cage, appraising.

Rose vowed that somehow, this man would eat his own words. But for now, she had no choice. She followed the orders he gave, and filed everything away. This man... this man she just might save for Dragon, if he was lucky.