#Chapter49
I gagged at the crunching sounds Ryze made, which suddenly had me feeling sick.
/"You want to keep him, you got to feed him properly. They are carnivorous birds, Aleera./"
I nodded, but I didn’t think I could force a mouse to die after seeing how viciously he’d killed it. Tobias tried to pass me one, and I shook my head, feeling my stomach grow queasy.
/"How do you expect to look after him if you won’t feed him?/"
/"You couldn’t bring dead ones?/" I asked.
Tobias looked down at the cage, not watching his hand, and Ryze struck again, plucking the squeaking mouse.
/"Fucker,/" Tobias hissed, sucking his fingers where Ryze got him.
Tobias sat on the ground next to his mouse cage and pulled another one out.
/"So, if you weren’t trying to escape, why were you touching the wards?/" he said, throwing a mouse to Ryze, who swallowed it whole.
