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tested...perhaps operated was the wrong word,” Nik said.
    “But I’ve seen them in my dreams…nightmares,” I told him. “I saw Isidor and Kayla and they were in pain. They were screaming.”
    “Are you sure they were nightmares?” Nik asked fixing me with his brilliant stare.
    “Of course they were nightmares! I was in them. I was locked in a room that was similar to a hospital and I was wearing a hospital…” Then looking down at myself, I whispered, “…gown.”
    Nik just looked at me, his tail swishing back and forth across the stone floor of my cell.
    “Oh, my God!” I breathed deeply. “They’re not dreams or nightmares – they’re memories! All that stuff has really happened!” Then twisting around on the chair, I reached over my shoulder and touched the space between my shoulder blades. At once, pain exploded across my back and I snapped forward. I waited for the pain to ease but it never truly faded, so I touched my back again. With the tips of my grubby fingers, I could feel those little black bones sticking from my back as they twitched and wriggled like fingers.
    Snatching my hand away, I yanked the hospital gown from over my head. Folding my arms over my breasts, I showed my back to the wolf and said, “What have they done to me?”
    Nudging the metal bowl across the floor towards me with his snout, Nik said, “See for yourself.”
    I crouched down, and picked up the bowl with my trembling fingers. Holding it in the air and slightly behind my left shoulder, I turned my head and peered at the reflection of my back in the shiny surface of the bowl. At once I dropped it, and it clattered to the floor, spilling what was left of the meat.
    “No!” I whimpered at the sight of the cuts and gashes that covered my back. But it was the sight of those black bony fingers wriggling from the cuts that frightened me the most. They protruded from wounds that were bruised green and purple where they had been stitched together.
    Pulling the hospital gown back over my head, I slumped back onto the chair and wrapped my arms around myself, rocking back and forth.
    “Why are they doing this?” I whispered as tears fell onto my cheeks.
    Ignoring my question, Nik stood up on his four muscular legs, and said, “Oh, I nearly forgot, I brought you something else.” I heard the sound of his paws padding against the floor as he headed back towards the door. He returned moments later pushing a book along the floor with his snout.
“I thought you might want to read this, you know, to relieve the boredom,” he said.
Numbly, I glanced down at the floor and at the book he had bought for me. I didn’t say anything – I couldn’t.
“I thought it might help you,” he said, stepping out of the moonlight and heading back towards the cell door.
“Wait a minute…don’t go!” I called out to him.
“What?” he woofed, from within the gloom.
“Where am I?” I asked softly. “You can at least tell me that.”
“You’re in a zoo,” his voice floated back out of the darkness.
    “Azoo?’ I whispered. “What do you mean, in a zoo ?”
    “That’s where animals are kept, isn’t it?” he asked.
    “I guess,” I said numbly, not really taking in what he had just told me.
    I don’t know how long I sat there for, dazed and confused. But when I peered around the cell some time later, the werewolf had gone and my cell door was closed again. My skin had started to itch again and my stomach had started to flip and I knew what I needed to make those feelings go away. Glancing down at my feet, I could see the upturned bowl and the dirty strips of bloodied meat that had fallen from it. I picked it up with my filthy fingers and brushed away the dirt that had stuck to it from the cell floor.
    Closing my eyes, I put the meat in my mouth and it tasted bitter and felt gritty against my tongue. Swallowing hard, I forced the raw meat down my throat. I sat on my chair, stinking and dirty with the taste of raw meat in my mouth,