awakening


I awake to glass and steel. It’s a new cage not unlike my old cage, except that it’s much cleaner.


Maya’s here, and other humans I recognize.


“Hey there, Ivan,” Maya says. “He’s coming to, guys.”


I have three walls of glass. The fourth wall is a curtain of wooden slats strung together.


This doesn’t look like the zoos on TV. Where are the other animals?


Where are the gorillas?


Is this where Ruby ended up? In a cage just like her old cage, still alone? Is she cold? Hungry? Sad?


Is there anyone to tell her stories when she can’t get to sleep?

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