Sy's voice was mostly excited, but it was the hint of alarm that had Rabbit bolting next door to find out what was wrong. What he saw surprised him, even though it shouldn't have. The sirens' room was wrecked again, the first such incident in a month and a half, but this time their trap had been sprung. They'd finally caught the son of a b***h. Rabbit grinned.
"Look!" Neverain was smiling too, which was nice to see following Pax's funeral. The cage at the center of their room was eerily silent, but that might have just been because of the sheet. They'd rigged it up to cover itself once something was caught, just in case the creature had hypnosis powers or mind control, but it was possible that their caution had just caused the thing to fall asleep.
"Uncover it!"
"Yeah, just... stay back." If the creature hadn't reacted to their stage whispers by now, it had likely never been asleep in the first place.
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