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Lab Rats

Your heart freezes in your chest. Carla looks at you and laughs a rich, infectious laugh. "Oh, you boys be so silly! It will no harm you. At least," her brow furrows, "it should no harm you. But it be a brand new spell that I'm working on, and that be why I need test subjects." Her smile fades a little as she confides "I no believe in cruelty to animals for the uses of research."

Cruelty to animals?! A hysterical urge to laugh wells up in you, but you force it down. Fred cowers back. "So you don't really know what this spell will do to us, do you?"

Her frown returns, and a little bit of steel enters her voice. "I be knowing what the spell should do, and I've spent a powerful long time working on it. There be little risk."

"Don't we even get a choice?" you whimper, sounding utterly pathetic. Strangely, this seems to reach Carla. Her expression softens. "I be sorry about coercing you, but there be no one willing to try this. I be taking what I can get, and Fred be presenting me with an interesting oppurtunity." Her next comment is directed at Fred, "And I hope you be learning some manners from all this, as well!" Fred just whimpers and shrinks to the floor, his paws over his muzzle. "Besides, I may be doing you a favour after this."

"Well, then." she says brightly, "Let us be getting going before Mistah Albert be after you and starts bothering poor Carla." She turns and moves to the back of her tent. You two follow, wondering what you'll find.


Written by Lupine

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