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"Escape is-" Val began.
Bang! The door to the nocturnal house swung open violently and the sound of bare feet slapping against the floor echoed down the hall. A hairy naked man stumbled in, blood trickling down his side where one of several tranquilizer darts had buried itself. He leaned heavily on the window tothe bat enclosure, his hand sliding across the surface with grime and a bit of blood as he attempted to focus his gaze on what was inside the enclosures. He took one step and fell, his head cracking against the ground. ".....pointless."

Roland was not the most handsome of creatures to be seen sprawled in the nude. Heavyset with a thick healthy coating of thick black hair from his hair to his toes. He had earned the title of bear in all his forms.

"What amazing timing." Val said, wonder in his tone. "If a man that big can't bully his way free I'm not sure what you think you can do to escape. We've tried and failed. If you and Lyle want to risk life limb and sanity be my guest but leave me out of it."

Val quieted when the sound of footsteps returned, this time heavy and with friends. The scientists checked the man's pulse and one of them armed with a tranquilizer eyed the three enclosures as they carried Roland out.

Val knocked on his window. "What is that man? A bear? You'd think you'd have this tranquilizing thing down after how many people you've taken and abused."

The man approached Val, and Val stood, opening his eyes properly to get a good face to face look at him.

"None of you are people. You're disgraces against humanity and god, but you're useful. Thats the only reason why we haven't sold your hides yet." Val watched as the man turned and helped the others transport Roland out to be treated and to get his bomb implanted as quick as possible. He didn't bother with a snarky response But the moment he left, he simply opened the door to his enclosure and strode across to the bat enclosure. A beep sounded somewhere within his neck and a red light glowed through the skin but Val's head did not explode in front of all their faces.

"The door to my enclosure isn't locked. Do you want to know why? I stopped trying to live out there. You really ought to stop right now while you're ahead. What are you going to do? Dig out the bomb with a shard of glass? Go out to be shot at by hunters and forced to live primitively in backwards lives, suppressed and hidden? Wake up. This world is owned by humans, our time is done. My plan is to stay right where I am and watch you descend like the rest of us."

Val had lied, partially anyways. They hadn't unlocked his enclosure he had, years ago figured out how to unlock both his and Lyles, and could with time anyways figure out how to access the bat enclosure. The scientists were aware of this however and simply retaliated by putting extra cameras in his enclosure and a sensor that alerted them where he went when he did leave his enclosure. His freedom was an illusion. He'd still explode if he walked out of the Zoo. He'd still get tranquilized and punished if he started unlocking other cages and enclosures. He was still near blind and his body was deteriorating.

He knew however that if he utilized this brand new clean slate of a prisoner he could plot if he wanted to. He could show him how to get around off camera and utilize the weaknesses in the sensing equipment and they could plan. He had no desire to.