"Ohhh… I'm so hungry!" Lia moaned, blushing with embarrassment.
But she needed something to eat.
"We need to bring her food! We don't want our new main attraction to die, right?"
Lia was again offended. She looked down at them with pity ... and some anger. Had she been out and free she might have stomped them flat. Fighting to purge the anger out of her system, she managed to see a few of them wheeling in a good number of buckets full of fish, the typical bass and salmon used to feed the old main attraction.
Lia's tail began to wag. She liked eating fish a lot. She wanted all of that!
"Hrrr…" she churred softly, her eyes mid-closing as she bowed her head down as if pleading for the food.
She didn't care about her situation now. She wanted to be fed!
And fed she was. Just after opening her maw slightly, buckets of fish were emptied onto her large tongue. Lia swallowed ... and asked for more, even though apparently they had given all of it to her.
"She's still hungry?" The man who had first found her asked. "Bring more! She needs to be healthy. It doesn't matter if it costs me thousands of dollars, I don't want her to be weak while we're taking good care of her!"
Lia's mind was a mess. She felt like a pet ... but why? She probably was over twice their size. If only she could squirm out of the tank, she could teach them a lesson. Now she understood how the other orca had felt, being confined in such a space-reduced location.