'To each their own,' was the only thing I could think to say to my mouse as the cage slammed shut behind me. 'But I wouldn't want to eat those men. It might give us indigestion.'
'Ah, but they lived in the world as shit; they might as well leave the same way,' continued my mouse, almost detached.
Frankly, I was getting more and more worried about her, but there wasn't much I could do right now. We had come up with a plan in the early days of our captivity, and we needed to see it through until the end.
At least the collar was no longer activated, and I could shift at will. The only problem was how my mouse was going to react to her long awaited freedom.
"You smell weird," said a voice coming from the dark corner of my cell.
"I haven't showered in a bit," was my reply as I tried to push myself into a seated position. "Sorry about that."
"No," disagreed the voice. "You smell… not wolf."