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- Posted: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:32:09 +0000

She heard Thomas's voice before seeing him.
After pitch darkness, the sudden light was blinding, sending dull aches through her eyes as they adjusted. Cypress gave a soft groan, her wings folding around her to block out some of the light for the few moments before she could open them properly. Finally they folded behind her, slipping into the pockets of skin on her lower back, laid bare by the dipping dress she had been given when she had arrived.
Moving forward, to the front of the box she was kept in, Cypress placed a hand against the safety glass. As frightening as he was, Cypress always had to ask Thomas, every single morning.
"Master Thomas," she said, politely enough, "may I fly today?" She only spoke this way with him, with her innocent little girl voice, with those big, bright eyes that begged. The slavers had reminded her over and over on the way here that if she was good she might get such favors as a flight around the house or a recommendation to a good master.
With a playful glare, Thomas moved closer to Cypress's cage. His pale skinned hands pressed against the glass as he looked in at her. "And give you a chance to escape? Why risk it?"
Sphynx sat in her cage, a frown turning down the edges of her lips. 'Don't look at him,' she thought, casting her gaze away from the owner of the shop. 








