"He really likes you, you know."
Noah sighs, setting the Fish bucket in his gloved hand down and wiping at his sweating forehead. Behind him, the staff door to the lion exhibit closes with a pair click. "I know, its great having Sir Nils Olav, a literal penguin who got knighted like me." He responded with sarcasm oozing out of him.
He looks up at Giant who just let him out of the enclosure after the feeding, almost 6,10 of pure muscle with tanned skin and balder than Biscuit. And he's a naked mole-rat. He's wearing the standard uniform of the Edinburgh zoo, a navy polo top and shorts, and on the front of the of the shirt a nametag simply saying "Liam".
"Eh, atleast he likes you, last time I fed him he tried to bite my finger off" Liam responded with blank eyes, probally remembering his 'near death experience'. Not an uncommon experience with all the dangerous animals He encounters, like flamingos and kiwi. To the point that the on-site feline specialist needs to do the job of the on-site avian specialist.
"Anyways, I've got to be over by the lions in 20, gotta be there to make sure the new females fitting in, best to not be late" Noah said, in an almost accusatory tone while turning away from Liam...
Atleast until Josh, the security guard, started screaming in Noahs radio.
"Shit, some kid threw a rock at the Lions, one of them jumped over the gap, and just mauled him, we need to evacuate immediately!" Came from the radio, in an almost desperate voice.
"Soooo, I'm guessing she's not fitting in that well" Liam said from leaning over Noahs shoulder, in an almost snarky voice.
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'Shit, shit, shit' I basically screamed in my mind already guessing what had happened with raika. An unfamiliar environment, pride and people. Bunch of tourists and then suddenly something threw a rock at her head and lashed out, poor thing probaly is scared out of her mind right now, kid probably lost his arm, but what did he think was gonna happen from throwing a rock at a lion of all things.
As I Round the corner of the cafe and pass by the lemur exhibit I finally see her, prowling arround the toilets, probaly hearing something inside, I tighten my grip on the tranq gun i grabbed from the staff area and take aim, the training I had to have taking over as I unleash multiple shots her, and completely miss as she rushs into the female bathrooms.
"Shit" I all but whisper, as I start to rush forward seeing that someone could be in there, as I start to come up on the toilets all I can hear is the growling coming from outside, and banging on the stalls. Recognising that she won't be near the entrance I quickly enter and beak arround the corner. And there she is, raika in all her spiked and blood smeared hairy glory, banging on a closed stall. I quickly take aim and fire hitting her with three darts in quick succession, bearly hitting then, guess that training wasent that useful after all, still enough to take out a fully grown elephant even if i barley hit. After she drops I quickly report that I've dealt with it on the radio and quickly go to get whoevers in the stall out, pretty dumb idea to hide in a stall of all places though.
As I approach I keep a close eye on raika, less than a meter away from the stall door with real claw marks, unlike all the others with those shitty stick on claw marks that are everywhere in the park, I quickly open the stall to see... no one inside, however as I turn arround all I see is the vertical slitted deep green eyes of one of the most dangerous predators on the face of the earth, and I can also clearly see the tranq darts that peirced through her skin on the sides on her and have the point come out on the other side.
"Clever girAGGG..." is all I get to say before she's Bite right into my throat, quickly filling with blood even before she starts ragdolling my body arround the room, turning the formerly pink and white room into a mix of red and red and red and red.
'Why can I only see red?
What's wrong.
Somethings wrong.
Why is there red everywhere? Is this what blindness is?
Why do my eyes hurt?
Why does my neck hurt?
WHAT IS HAPPENING!
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HURT!
what Is hurt?'
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There on the almost fully soaked room, a lion of pure red lies on top of headless body, rolling away is the missing head, completely ripped of as the lion sits on top of the body.
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'Where am i' is the only thing I can think, the only thing I can conceive in the high speed line of orbs, for I am also an orb, in the distance the orbs go up or they go down. It seems to be decided on how dark or light they are, with the lighter ones going up and the darker ones going down.
'Where am I going' is the next thing to come to my mind in this fuzziness, this static, it comes to mid because I can't see myself.
I don't ponder for long as I quickly reach the end, where I will go up or down, I start the rise..... until I also fall?
I quickly get flipped on my side, turned inside out and inverted... before going forwards?
I continue forwards though the nothing leaving the ups and downs into blackness, until I quickly come upon a big wall made of blackness? It doesn't take long for the wall to look at me,
judge me
access me
Veiw my very being
My existence
The wall extends, at least part of it before it pushs me.... somewhere that is not up, down, forwards or even backwards, i rush in a direction I cannot comprehend before, I fall unconscious.