Crimson Claws & Fangs ch.07

     Peter is awakened in his cell by the light above his head. He remembered that Shadow Vixen had said it would turn on when it was day time. Peter looked forward at the plexi-glass front of his cell and out into the hall. He remembered how his cell had moved deep underground and down this hall. He vaguely remembered seeing some of his comrades from the Sacred order along the way as well as numerous other people and even monsters.

 

    Peter could recall that to his left or right his next door cell had had some kind of shadow gnome, and the one in front of him held a strange pink scale covered female framed humanoid reptile.

 

   Suddenly a small slot appears in clear front of Peter’s cell by the floor barely big enough to hit a few fingers through. Outside the cell a small flying orange disk comes down the hall and stops in front of Peter’s cell. The disk spoke in Shadow Vixen’s voice, “a transmitter so she doesn’t have to come down here herself.” thinks Peter.

 

     Shadow Vixen through the disk explains to Peter the invisible air ducts that will allow him to breath and the slot that just appeared for his food to arrive via the very same type of disk she is using to speak to him, except not to expect her to talk to him from this point on, or for any outside contact, his only possible communication and social interaction will have to be talking to his cell mates, and as for exercise “try jogging in place, heh”.

 

    Shadow Vixen then uttered the command, “default settings activate”. The disk in a monotone voice says, “Peter Jones, human, male, Sheriff turned Religious terrorist, arrested for attack with intent to kill on Rai nobility. The tray lowers and materializes a tray with “food” on it which is pushed by an invisible force through the slot which turns back into a solid surface immediately after. The disk says, “Nutrient rich supplements delivered”. The disk continues to deliver similar trays to others and levitates older used trays through the slots and vanished them with a blue light, a form of teleportation reasoned Peter. As Peter looks at his grey glop of a meal figuring he must be expected to eat it with his hands or just off the tray with his mouth the reptile like woman across the hall says to him, “Where is your God now?”