Eve sits in the break room of the museum, drinking her tea from a mug as she tries to ignore the overpowering smell of overly strong coffee that came from the mug of the person that sat across the table from her, Fitz holding a TV remote in his hand as he flicks through channels on the staff room’s TV, staying on a channel for hardly a second before flipping to the next one.
Eve’s bares her teeth, her left ear twitching in annoyance every time she hears the channel being changed. “Fitz… do you really have to do that?”
Fitz doesn’t look back at her as he continues flipping through the channels. “I’m looking for something good to watch.”
Eve yells back at him. “You’re never going to find anything if you never watch more than a second of each channel!!”
Fitz stops on one of the channels, the image of a large juicy steak from a food commercial catching his attention. “Hey that looks good…” He then resumes flipping through the channels once the commercial is done playing.
“Stop it Fitz!” Fitz continues going through channels just as quickly as before. “Fitz!!” Fitz doesn’t look to have heard her, still going through the channels. “Don’t ignore me!!
Eve reaches across the table forcefully taking the TV remote from him, unable to stand it anymore. “Alright that’s enough already!!”
“Hey what’s the big deal?! I haven’t found anything yet.” He looks back at the TV, the TV’s image displays the picture of a reporter sitting at her news desk. “Aww and you stopped in it on the news too…”
The news anchor begins her report. “Kit Milford, son of Governor Milford, was killed Wednesday night in a tragic attack. Though the death happened two days ago Governor Milford chose to keep the information from the public for fear of complications to the election that was taking place the day after Kit died.”
Fitz looks back to the TV. “Hu…? Kit was killed? He was such a cute little kid too.”
Eve stares back at Fitz. “You know Governor Milford’s son?”
Fitz shrugs his shoulders. “Not really, I only met him a few times, I don’t actually know him. His dad takes him to the museum every time we have one of those new kid geared exhibits. Real nice kid, prone to climbing the exhibits sure but really what kid isn’t. He always loved hearing me talk about my adventures to exotic far off lands, although in all honestly who wouldn’t love hearing me talk?”
Eve glares over at him. “I for one can’t stand hearing you talk, be they about your exploits or not.”
The reporter continues. “Governor Milford’s son was killed by wilds when attending a meeting that was intended to bring peace. No further information concerning his death or actions in regards to this declaration of war has been released.”
Eve’s eyes widen, this information catching her attention, Yula had mentioned a young boy in his dream, one of mountain lion decent, the governor of their city exactly that. “He was the boy in subject 1502’s dream…” She looks back to the TV screen, a picture of the child in question right now being displayed on it.
Fitz frowns at the information from the reporter. “I find that hard to believe… I’ve dealt with wilds a lot on my travels, and yeah, they can be pretty merciless against people that attack them, but over all they’re a pretty peaceful people, and even if they did declare war they would never do it in such an underhanded way.”
Eve looks back to Fitz, Fitz was completely right, from when she had heard from General Mort the whole ordeal had been a trap meant to try and secure the leader of the tribe in question, and Kit had been killed by someone in the military, not by one of the wilds. For them to use the governor’s son like that, they spared no expense in making it so that the farce seemed as real as possible. “How unfortunate…”
*******
Teddy and Zack stand behind Iuana who is right now seated on a chair with her wrists shackled to the arms of the chair to keep from attacking, a man in a white coat sitting across from her and questioning her. “We found what was hidden in the Eden of North.”
Iuana frowns snapping back to the man that spoke to her. “I told you already, I don’t know of any place called by that name.”
The man continues ignoring Iuana’s comment. “Unfortunately what we found was incomplete, the most vital part, whatever it is that acts as a power source, was nowhere to be found.”
Iuana raises her voice. “I just said I have never heard of that place! How would I know anything about something you found in it!?”
The man in the white coat sighs. “Alright then, let’s move onto the next set of questions. Where is the current location of your pack?”
Iuana’s stare turns into the most hateful glare the scientist had ever seen in his life, the man jumping back when he sees it, Iuana speaking to him in a threatening manner. “I don’t care how long you keep me locked away or what you do to me, I will never give you such precious information. If you dare to ask me that question again you will regret it!”
Zack holds his hands behind his head, an amused smirk on his face. “You gotta hand it to her, of all the negative things this girly is a snitch isn’t one of them.”
Another man in a white lab coat enters the room, he looking to Zack and Teddy. “This session is finished, return her to her room.”
*******
Teddy rubs the back of his sore neck, today had felt longer than usual for some reason. Zack pats him on the back getting his attention. “So then lover boy, what’s the plan? All I’ve figured out so far in your plans, is that you’re going to chat her up nice and smooth to get her to like you. What you going to do after that though, train her and try to make her into a domestic? If that’s the plan you’re going to have a pretty hard time doing it, you’d probably have better luck running away with her and trying to get past the military.”
Teddy looks back to Zack. “Just because I treat her respectfully and she treats me nicer than she does you doesn’t mean anything.”
Zack crosses his arms. “Okay I get it, she’s too much of a wild for you. That’s fine I think the exact same way, but still.” He looks back to Teddy. “You’ve got to admit, she’s grown pretty found of you, you’re the only one she doesn’t greet with a murderous snarl.”
Teddy is a little embarrassed by this information. “Don’t you have anything better to do with your time than harass me all day?”
Zack frowns an annoyed look now filling his face. “I sit on a chair all day in front of a cage, so no.”
Teddy looks at him with an annoyed expression. “Bring a book.”
Zack laughs as he passes by Teddy beginning on his way. “I might just do that. See you tomorrow Romeo.”
Teddy gets back to gathering his things so that he could start heading home, Teddy finding himself thinking back to the interrogation he had stood through. “The Eden of North… I wonder what that’s about. Isn’t that a bunch of ruins in a country far from this one? I didn’t think a place like that would relate to any of the tribes around here.”
*******
Dolly looks up from her book, looking up to a clock on the wall and reading the time, getting up from her chair as to leave to go home for the day.
Yula notices that Dolly had gotten up to leave, he getting to his feet and walking to the door of his room, calling out to her before she left to go home. “Goodnight Miss. Conner!”
Dolly doesn’t stop walking. “Goodnight.”
Yula sighs as he watches her leave, Teddy’s sister was really not a very easy person to get to know. He walks back to his bed flopping back onto it and stares at the ceiling, being stuck in the room all day was boring. It wasn’t as bad with Teddy, because Teddy would let him out to stretch his legs every once and a while, not to mention that when he was in the room Teddy had no problem talking to him to keep him from feeling so bored and lonely. Never in his whole stay in this building had he ever had a guard as nice as Teddy, so it was disappointing to have him gone.
Yula sighs as he rolls over, pulling his sheets over him and preparing to sleep, there really was nothing else for him to do. “I hope I have another strange dream… then at least something interesting would have happened.”
*******
A scientist stands in front of General Mort, he giving him his report. “Judging from the way she responded she really has no idea of what was found in the Eden of North, or even of that place in general. I don’t believe that she is lying about that.”
General Mort frowns at the information. “What about the location of her father and the rest of her pack? Did she say anything about that?”
The scientist shakes his head. “She refused to say anything, and judging from her reaction to the question she’s not going to be giving us the information anytime soon, at least not without more drastic measures being taken.”
General Mort snarls at the information. “And those drastic measures can’t be taken can they?”
The scientist nods his head. “As you know she’s an endangered species, part of a bloodline thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago. We couldn’t even put her in a jail cell because of this fact and instead have to keep her here. There’s not a lot we can actually do to her within the law, and we’re being watched closely in regards to her so we can’t step out of line with this one.”
General Mort thinks the situation over, there had to be something that could be done. “A tracker… those are permitted, even necessary on endangered species correct?”
The scientist nods his head. “Well… yes… only under the circumstances that you are willing to release the animal in question out into the wild.”
General Mort smiles at the information. “Well, why not. If we do that she’ll head straight home won’t she? If she’s being tracked while she does that she’ll lead us straight to her father and the rest of her pack.”
The scientist stares back at him, although that would work in theory there were still problems with the idea. “She’s a wild, not a wild animal. If we release her she’s going to suspect that something is amiss and may not go back home at all.”
General Mort nods his head, indeed seeing the problem the scientist spoke of. “We’ll just have to think of a scenario that won’t have her thinking in such a way. Maybe let her escape, that way she’ll think that she would have gotten out on her own. She’ll be more than likely to return back to her home then wouldn’t she?”
“Do you really think that something like that will work?”
General Mort looks back to him. “There’s no saying for certain, but we have very little options available to us. Besides, if the venture does turn out to be fruitless we can always just catch her again and bring her back in. She will have a tracker on her after all, we’ll know her location no matter where she goes.”
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