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Chapter Five

Choruses of "Ewww!" and "Yuck!" followed by rounds of giggling were heard throughout the glade. Saelorennr smiled, taking a sip of her spiked juice. The shining sun kept her feeling nice and toasty and between that and the sweetsleep she was feeling downright comfortable, which was a pleasant surprise.

"Why would you ever do such a thing?" The piping voice came from a young elfarin male, a look of pure disgust on his face, his long ears held flat against his head. Before Rennr had a chance to answer, a small human girl spoke up.

"Because it was all she could do to stop that brute, and she had to do something!" The brunette blushed after her declaration. "Right?"

Rennr nodded. "Quite right. It also goes to show that even if the enemy has you bound and has taken away all of your obvious weapons, you are never without options. Just giving up is never the answer."

"Still," the first boy spoke up again, "that is filthy! And disgusting! And-"

"That was exactly why I did it. I hoped to shock this male out of whatever madness was upon him, to convince him in the most blatant way possible that I was not okay with his actions. I wasn't just going to sit back and be his victim." Rennr said firmly. "Listen, even if the 'bad guys' make you do it, or it's the end times, or whatever, there are actions that are not acceptable. Never. Rape is one of them. He wasn't taking a spoken no for an answer. So I had to find a way to make him see."

"Well, did it work?" The quiet dragon-gryphon in the back spoke up suddenly, her eyes catching Rennr's and holding it.

Rennr smiled and continued her tale.

"Ugh! You filthy little hen! How dare you!" The tirade continued, but I was just happy that the weight had left my back. I sighed softly, my head swimming slightly, before I was brought back to myself by his voice reaching a hysterical screech. "I guess I'll just have to TEACH YOU A LESSON! Do you think these are the actions of RATIONAL BEINGS?! Everyone here is scared shitless and you do this like this is some sort of joke or something! What is WRONG WITH YOU? I'll just damage you beyond repair so that they- That they have to- Bring me someone else!"

I squinched my eyes shut and held my breath, but all I heard was a loud thump. I sat there, shaking and scared and suddenly feeling very alone. Something in his voice made me feel scared and sick.

Do you think these are the actions of RATIONAL BEINGS?!

_ _ I sat very still as a hand touched my flank, only shivering slightly. I kept my eyes closed as small hands undid the straps holding me in place. I refused to open them as I was led by the halter out of the dreaded contraption. I walked by touch only, following the hands, keeping my eyes tightly shut until I could hear my talons clicking on stone, and eventually heard the sound of a door clanging shut and locking.

When I opened my eyes I felt an insane rush of giddiness that I was back in my nice, safe cell. It took me a moment to realize how ridiculous that was, but I still felt it. Beneath that, though, lurked the uncertainty that had started earlier and was only beginning to grow.

Do you think these are the actions of RATIONAL BEINGS??

_ There is a great evil coming..._

_ I don't know how much you know..._

_ Everyone here is scared shitless..._

_ _ The drake had a point. Being a brute or not, he still had a point. The things these "humans" had done didn't make any sense, and seemed to be the actions of a people very, very desperate. As if they thought that they could breed me, and then do something with my young... But what, exactly? The female had teared up before they took me, she was clearly upset by how everything was going. Maybe some of them knew that this wasn't the way. But what was the way?

Days passed and my schedule resumed. I was starting to stink again but I hardly noticed it now, my mind wrapped around these dark and heady thoughts. What was going on? If I could speak with these humans, what would they say to me? Maybe instead of fighting them at every turn, I could try to feel out what their real intentions were and maybe help them instead...

Then again, they had captured me, had drugged me repeatedly, and then had tried to breed me unwillingly. They had never once tried to communicate with me! They had just started taking what they wanted!

Maybe they thought I was nothing more than some base beast, that I didn't have any higher reasoning or thinking or feelings or anything. Maybe that was where the breakdown was.

As I said, days passed with my mind buzzing around the same circle, until that buzz died down to a mere plodding. I didn't get much sleep, and didn't feel much like eating as a sick feeling of dread had settled in the pit of my stomach. I just sat and thought and thought and sat. Until the day that she came back.

He came with her, shaking his head repeatedly and trying to hold her back. She kept shooing him off and approached the cage, holding a bowl in her hands. Her eyes met mine, and I noticed they were bright blue. I lifted my head as she came close, walking right up to the bars and holding the bowl forward.

I rose and the man jumped forward with a yell. She gave him a look that almost made me snerk, and looked back at me, pulling the bowl out and miming drinking it. She then offered it back to me. I shrugged one shoulder and took the bowl. After all, brute strength wasn't going to get me out of this one and something was going on here, so I decided to cooperate. I didn't dump the bowl on her head, or start raging at the bars of the cage, or anything. I just took the bowl and sniffed it.

The scent that hit my nares was herbal and alien, completely foreign to anything I had smelled before, but not wholly unpleasant. So, with that, I tossed it back. The consistency was syrupy and it seemed to coat my mouth and throat.

I handed the bowl back to her and sat, cocking my head. Was this supposed to make me more ready to mate? Put me to sleep? Make me hungry again?

I sat there for a few moments with no change and she made some noise at me. Her eyes had started to fill with disappointment and I was heading back to settle down when a stabbing pain pierced the middle of my skull. I croaked and fell over as dark dots swam in my vision. It felt like the darts, but painful instead of numbing, starting in my skull instead of my flank, my head becoming nothing but a mass of pain. I brought both talons up to my head and shrieked, kicking my legs out behind me.

Just as the pain reached its peak, darkness swallowed me.