You hop away quickly at first, but as you hear your moth-no...as you hear the roo calling out you slow down. You look around in confusion. You don't know where you are or where you're running to. You're cold and confused and try as you might to focus, you can't stop yourself from feeling flustered. You hear her calling out to you, calling with the sad desperate cries of a mother to her child. You find yourself drawn towards the sound and without even realizing it you turn towards the sound of her voice.
You stop yourself again, and force yourself to walk in a different direction, but it's so cold and lost the somehow you end up turning around in the maze of corridors to find yourself heading towards her again. The strange thing is, you don't even hear her calling out to you anymore. Some instinct is drawing you closer, telling you where she is. You pause and wrap your arms around yourself, strangely altered as they are. It's cold out here, and she was so warm, so comforting, so...motherly. You look down at yourself and wonder who you're trying to fool. You're not human anymore, not in the proper sense. Even if you do manage to escape the zoo, then what? Show up to work and try to explain what happened? Another cry reaches your long ears, this time tugging firmly at you heart strings.
You're moving towards her now, without realizing it. When you do, however, you keep going. The realization makes you hop even faster until you walk back to where you left her. She sits there, paws covering her face as she hunches over, seemingly weeping. The sight gives you pause. It occurs to you that if you walk back to her now, she may never let you go. Furthermore she may be angry or upset at you and reject you. Somehow the second option makes you feel even worse. You shuffle slightly closer.
"M...Miss Roo?" you say to her. She lifts her head and looks at you. Her look is blank for a moment but it quickly turns to a combination of joy and relief.
"My baby..." she says quietly through chocked back tears.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." you say to her. She comes closer to you.
"It's okay, baby. Come back." she says and holds open her pouch "Come back to mama."
You know that there's no going back, this makes you hesitate. She seems to sense your hesitation and gives a gentle smile. She hums her lullaby again. It's too much for you now. You draw closer and allow her to swaddle you up in the warm comforting walls of her pouch again. You can practically feel her joy as you snuggle in, letting the music catch in your ears. You're hers now. You know it. She song is putting you to sleep and you realize that by the time you wake your body and mind will have slipped away completely. Still there seems to be just one thing left undone. One thing that keeps you from drifting off completely. The answer comes as soon as you stop trying to think of it.
"I love you, momma." you say to her, and drift off to sleep.