Chapter 1
She was just a little girl when she wondered away from home, she doesn't remember how or where. She doesn't know her real name or if she ever had one. She remembers their faces... her mama and papas.the smiles and laughs in the park before she wondered to far.
A choice she regrets every day. She now known as '040216' a number, living inside a cage cleaning out their masters collection.
Til one day. Stranger come knocking, picking out the finest of masters pets. 040216 doesn't believe she would be picked, but she is much to the displeasure of her master.
She is blinded by hope and disappear but her journey doesn't end there not when the Prince of Fire himself wants to keep her.
Chapter one.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
The usual sound of a dripping in the back ground filled my ears, I could smell the dawn was coming and the day starting. I had found a comfortable spot on the floor, curled up in a ball my dress just about covering my shins, autumn was almost here, the breeze proving the summer glow was fading away.
my dress sleeve had ripped some time ago, leaving my forearms bare to the breeze, small traces of light beamed through the caves cracks and holes above me. I heard a large yawn and groan.
2457 was up, I recognised his groan anywhere. A small smile placed on my lips turning my head to look over my shoulder, my copper colour hair long matted around my face.
2457 return my smile, but went back to focussing on stretching in his small confide cage. Us slaves didn't really talk much.
I slide back down, my fingers touching and scratching on some rust at the bottom, I think back. A long time ago.
It was my 8th birthday, my mama and papa had thrown a large big party in the park, my cousins my friends and whole family had came. There was a BBQ, presents and music. My papa was playing hide and seek with me and the others, running to hide to find the perfect spot.
I had been to the park thousands of times, it was right around the corner to my house, but something new caught my eye. If I had known, I wouldn't of end up here I would of never followed the f-.
The sound of cage keepers broke me from my day dream, banging on cages around me, laughing and joking. Waking some of us up but the ones like me who had been here years were already up. Sitting up I let out a big stretch, the cage keeper grim, I believe they called him.
Stood before my cage, older man crinkle and tall. Like a monster at the end of your bed, brown hair to match his greasy oily skin. Eyes to match, his teeth needed a good clean, yellow and brown in places. Cage Keepers, kept us in line. The one who punished before the master.
"Ello " his purred like voice made my stomach turn, the way his dog eyes followed along my body as I stretch out, his eye lingering on my feet for longer than he needed to. I curled my feet under my body hiding from him.
"Don't be like that." his tongue darting around his mouth like a dog in heat. my stomach turned within itself, the thought of him touching me in any way shape or form. I choked back vomit, his eyes still beaming where my feet used to be.
Cage keeper in front of me unlocked my cage then, the small space not feeling any better with the door open, the cage keeper knocking the bars in a creepy way as he moved on, his devil grin not leaving his face the whole face.
I waited for him to be out of view, 2457 was already out his cage, stretching his leg out. He had been here longer than me but other than that I knew much to nothing about him like the other numbers. All different types of people, 2457 was a tall skinny broad male, but his hair was long and black braided ways my mother used to braid my hair. With hair pulled from his face exposed his pointy ears, high cheek bones and bright blue eyes.
He didn't look like me, but everyone here looked different but he looked more like the masters and guards, though he worn much more torture than most here. I crawled out the cage, cracking my neck from the stiff sleep.
It was time to work, We all got different jobs, we all had different skills but once they found the skill we kept the job however if you didn't have a skill well your cage would be empty the same day.
My skill. Well it's not a skill more of a temperament.
I got to ted to the master priced collections of animals. Things from my story books, knights and castle and unicorns.
My favourite though. It was the dragons.
