Nightshift 49: Animal Test Subjects Kennel
[warped in from here.]The minute Endrance stepped through the door, he felt the pit of his stomach drop. He recognized this place from one of the first nights he'd been there, and he had hoped never to wind up there again. "This place
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Kairi was such a sweet girl. Carter felt his momentary depression lifting and flying away under the attentions of such like-minded optimism. "A Dear John letter," he explained, "is a letter your girlfriend writes to you if you're away at a war and she wants to be in love with somebody else instead. I guess it's better than not telling you at all but it's still--
Hup! And the swirling sinking rising feeling came again and Carter found himself towing Kairi into a small dark closet that smelled of animals.
"That's no fair!" Carter commented loudly, dropping Kairi's hand and feeling very put out. "We didn't even go through a door that time!" Now where were they? The young sergeant flashed his light around the room, looking over a multitude of cages with growling, scratching noises coming from their darkened depths. Rats? Too big for rats...
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Her sad thoughts were momentarily stopped when that wave of nausea sank into her stomach once again, and she swallowed. Why were things being like this?
"Where are we now?" Kairi asked, her tone taking on a soft whining sound. This was making absolutely no sense! Her eyes gazed over the cages, jumping in surprise at the sound of the moving animals. What were they being kept here for?
"Oh god," she whispered, her face paling. They tortured animals as well? "This place is just so horrible ..."
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"Are they...I don't even think they're regular animals, not Earth ones." And it didn't seem right they should be locked up in here, they all sounded very miserable. Carter tugged at the cage door, going so far as to brace his foot against the rack. When it didn't give he fell back, exasperated, and waved one hand at the poor creatures.
"They outta be ashamed of themselves, locking up poor animals like this. When I bring back reinforcements this is gonna be the first place we stop," he declared firmly.
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She didn't want to look at them ... even though she knew they attacked them and she should take no pity, she couldn't help but feel bad thinking that these were once normal animals that were twisted and tortured until they were what they were now.
It just proved how horrible Landel's was.
She didn't want to be there very long. Shifting closer to Carter, Kairi frowned, grasping tightly onto the blade, rage filling her as she thought more about the animals. Her fingers tingled slightly, and she shook her hand, wanting it to go away. "I hope it will be that easy. Let's find the door before one of them escapes ..."
She could already see some broken cages, anyway. That certainly wasn't a good sign.
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He took Kairi's hand again, backed up until his hand hit the doorknob, then opened it and pulled her back through. Hopefully this time they'd make it somewhere good.
[ To here.]
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