I felt my knuckles land on the floor. Rope securing my jaw close. I was hungry. Always hungry even when i was eating my hunger was never satiated. And they were forcing my mouth shut. To keep me from biting them and making them my next meal. My ears flicked, turning to keep pinpointing where they all were. It was odd. They seemed to walk on two legs. The sound of their movements was thump thump , thump thump, not thump thump thump thump, thump thump thump thump. They smelled odd. Like they tried to cover up their scent but only with things that would attract predators like us.

I had lashed out. Feeling my claws drag through the soft skin of the beast before me and two each side. They screamed screamed bloody murder. I have never heard anything scream as they did. It was annoying. I wanted them gone, I wanted this off my face! I wanted to be free. My back arched as I stood up on two legs like they did and scratched at my face the skin that peeled over my head to show off my powerful jaw flexing over the rope and off of it. It only seemed to make things worse.

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I landed back down the sound of me hitting the ground echoing around me. They yelled more. Something I don't understand but they must have because there were suddenly more of them. My legs were being binded. It was my turn to howl like them but I couldn't. I couldn't get anything out but whimpers. It's the only noise I could get past my clenched teeth.

I was being dragged along the cold ground. My leathery skin hissing against it. I flexed my fingers and my claws hit the substance. I heard it grind against it like the sound of a bird being slowly squeezed in someone's hands. Suddenly something was put on my neck close to my shoulders.

They let everything else go. The rope around my jaw released and that very second I heard them all leave as I attacked the thing around my legs. Ripping it apart like a claw through water.

I stood free but the more I barked the more I noticed I wasn't really free. I was in a box… all by myself.