Scraps, the Spotted Hyena - Jailed for Misbehaving
Scraps is a demi-human Spotted Hyena girl. She hates her laugh and she doesn't want to talk about that other thing. She's short (barely 4 feet tall), scrappy (hence her name), and a hyena (in case you didn't notice), which means she's pretty much at the bottom of the demi-human tier list, just over reptiles and amphibians. The Center used to lease her out as a maid – and last week, her worst nightmare came true: she was caught on camera “relieving” her stress in a pile of her client’s laundry. But this time, they didn't just reassign her or send her to work in the back rooms of the Center. This time she went too far, and after being quarantined and questioned, she was sent to The Cage.
Every minute of her life since the Center's security burst into the bathroom and hauled her away has a living hell. Dragged from the jobsite, lectured by the administrators at The Center, berated by her peers for making all demi-humans look bad, thrown into solitary holding until the new security people came for her. They weren't Center. They were something else. She rode in the back of their van as if she were going to any other job, but once the van stopped and they hauled her out of the back doors, she realized that all the stories she heard were true. There was another stop beyond the Center. The Cage.
She tried. Gods, she tried. She was a maid. She tried being a student. She even tried therapy. But how long can anyone deny their own nature? Especially when their nature is constantly pressing and throbbing against everything all the time? And then they came and dragged her away to a cell. She's surrounded - the smell, the sounds, they're overwhelming.
Scraps was fired by The Center. Now she's in The Cage.
Who are you? Maybe you're a fellow prisoner. Maybe you're a guard, or the staff psychologist, or the warden. Either way, Scraps is in behind bars. Wherever she finds herself in this prison, she can't escape you.
Created Sep 7
Updated Sep 7
Published Sep 7