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Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 23

“Fine!” Lynx growled “Let’s hope we won’t need someone who can fly anytime soon” Ferra huffed, ignoring the rest of the pointless argument. She looked up at the humans. Many humans had gathered, and now there were lots of them. Some of the humans held weapons, some just stood their empty handed, and others whistled for tames from somewhere further away.

One human in particular shoved through the crowd. Ferra eyed this new human. She gasped, realizing it was the dark haired female. “Stop!” The female human yelled. Ferra couldn’t tell if the human was talking to the other humans or them. The few humans that held weapons, lowered them. Ferra relaxed a little as they pointed their spears, pikes, and crossbows toward the ground.

“What’s…what’s going on?!” The female asked, looking in their direction. Ferra shivered for a moment. It’s like she’s talking to us- wait. Her voice… Ferra jumped back. “R…that’s R!” Lynx swung her head around “What did you just say?!” Lynx looked angry. Ferra nodded toward the female “She’s R, she’s the voice!” Lynx walked up to Ferra. “What do you mean she’s the voice?! You told us we could trust it!” Lynx growled. Ferra resisted the urge to roll her eyes, or shrink away from Lynx “I’m sorry, alright?! I didn’t know it was a human that could understand us!”

Ferra tore her gaze away from Lynx and toward R. R looked, slightly upset. “You can trust me, I promise” R forced a smile. Lynx opened her mouth to speak but Renegade stepped forward. “I trust you” He flashed a friendly smile. How? How can he be so polite?! And calm! I…I’m terrified. “I trust you, seeing as you stopped your friends from hurting us, but you must let us go. We do not belong here”

Ferra thought she heard R scoff at the mention of friends. She shook her head “I’m sorry” R looked sad “I know you don’t belong here, but all I want is to learn about you, learn about the creatures that inhabit this place. I just want to keep you for a little longer, please.” Lynx gently shoved Renegade to the side. “No” Lynx growled.

Ferra stepped back. She growled as her vision began to blur. She thought she could see the others preparing to fight, but she wasn’t sure. Ferra shook her head, but the world seemed to fade away.

Ferra laid curled up in a ball. She felt safe where she was, on the edge of the large sleep circle. She didn’t know what she felt safe from, all she could remember was feeling scared, but now she felt relieved by the feeling of her brother's warm fluffy bodies curled up against her back.

Ferra stood and looked over the sleep circle. Almost everyone in the colony was in this sleep circle. There were only about one or two small sleep circles of four or five in the area. She sat and curled her tail around herself.

Ferra thought about yesterday. “Ferra used to be so sweet” the old female ferox, Madea, had commented. Erens, an old male ferox, snorted. “This morning she brought me a mangled compy!” He complained. Skadd, the oldest ferox in the colony, stiffly approached his companions. “There are always a few like that every generation. They’re selfish and full of themselves. They think they’d be better off without the colony and prefer to avoid responsibility.” He growled. Ferra had shivered from within the bush she was hidden in. She had been playing hide and seek with her brothers, and overheard the elders talking poorly about her.

Ferra scoffed, she knew she wasn’t always the nicest, and could have a little bit of a temper sometimes, but she didn’t think she was that bad. She didn’t avoid responsibility either. Usually she’d spend all day hunting, she wanted the colony to have enough food for everyone. She also thought it was rather rude for Erens to have complained about the compy, it wasn’t the best catch, but she had heard that he hadn’t eaten and wanted to get him something. That compy was the best thing she could find at the time.

The elders weren’t the only ones to talk about her this way, she had heard others talk rudely about her as well. Sometimes she would even walk by and see her parents telling their friends about how grumpy she was. She didn’t understand, they acted as if she was awful, but they had never directly told her anything like that. Although, she tried her best.

She tried her best to make her parents and the colony proud. She spent half the day hunting, then spent another good portion of the day helping the weaker members of the colony. When the sun was almost completely hidden by the horizon, she would lay down and rest, only to have someone complain about her not being helpful. Ferra just tried her best to be polite and not rude, which she found very hard.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh, this chapter caused me great struggle, so I hope you guys enjoyed it!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger