I sat there buck naked in the terrarium the Big Ones had left me to. Sitting in front of the crystal I saw the
pathetic reflection of a child, not a man by right, dirty and naked like when he was born with his arms around
his knees in fetal position about to become the plaything of one of the Big Ones child.
"So there's the sullking one." I heard from behind me. It was a boy, just about my age, shaggy blonde hair and
green eyes, not pale like me, but almost a golden tan.
"Who are you?" I asked to the nude boy who didn't bother to cover up.
"I'm Zeal, and you?" he offered a hand for me to stand up... I didn't want.
"I'm Luka."
"So you were captured too. Recently too, since you want to keep modesty. Don't worry soon you'll forget about
it and strout your stuff like me. Is the lesser of evil trust me..." said at the end with somewhat dramatic
tone.
I could have pushed the point, but instead I took his hand and stood up showing myself, somewhat bashful, to
him.
"All right Luka. Welcome to your life as a pet."
"You said it as if its a good thing."
"When the alternative is being dinner, I take the lesser of two evils." he had point.
"Now your first instinct would be escape, to be fair I wish it were that easy. In my birth town I only heard
rumors. And you?"
"The same, although communication between us has never been our strenght."
"Right. Now our highest priority is getting you an owner."
"What?"
"The Big Ones here, won't let you escape that easily, just best chance is to slip through a Big Ones grasp and
made it to any of our towns. But you need to act like a pet."
"Like a pet?"
"Shameless, they like the broken humans, that may be fun to play with. Not the sulking ones. And as I say you
need a Big One to pick you as its pet." I looked at him, he seemed to make a very compelling point. "Now piss
and crap."
"What?!"
"Like it or not, you must act like an animal." said caressing my chest I quickly retracted. "What are you
doing?"
"You'll be touched all over, you better get use to eat, and for what's worth it.You may be mounted by one of
the purebreed."
"Purebreed?"
"Humans that were raised from birth as animal pets. Your prospecting owner may have some that want to "assert
his dominion" and declare you like a beta male or something." that was an interesting picture he was painting,
but one question remained.
"How do you know all this?"
"Do you know where you are?" I had to admit that I haven't pondered that myself.
I quietly responded, "No..."
"I've been in a Big One house, because I was a pet, but for some reason they left me here, in a pet store."