10: The Brotherhood: Kara: Meeting Daniel

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The address Kara had got from the Internet took her to a house in the middle of the countryside. It had been a long journey that she’d spent entirely in fox form and all she wanted to do was have a hot bath as a human, but that didn’t mean she was going to be stupid. Daniel was an unknown, even though he was Mim’s brother, so she carefully walked toward the house, keeping an eye out for anything unusual. Moments later she found herself trapped in a cage. Blinking, confused by its sudden movement, she looked around in an attempt to find out where it had come from.

“I’ve got one,” a male voice called, making Kara jump.

“Good work,” another male voice replied. A face appeared in front of the cage. “Are you human?”

Kara stared at the man in front of her. If she’d been in human form she’d have raised an eyebrow, but she wasn’t and she had no idea what her fox face was showing. The question wasn’t one she would answer even if she could have. She sat down, waiting to see what would happen next.

“What do you think, Daniel?” the first voice asked. “Is she a shifter?”

Daniel shrugged and Kara knew that she was looking at the man who was Mim’s brother. “She seems too calm to be a real fox, but I don’t know. It’s not as though we can force her to become human.”

“I’ll call Miles.”

Smiling, Daniel sat down in front of the cage. “I knew I kept you around for a reason.”

“You keep me around because I own the house, remember?” The other man laughed. “Really it’s me who keeps you around.”

“If you say so.”

Moments later Kara heard someone walk towards them. “You rang,” a third male voice said.

“We caught a fox and I want to know if she’s a shifter or not.”

“There’s only one thing I can tell you – she really doesn’t want to let me in her head. I’m pretty certain she’s human because I’ve never known an animal to have shields around their mind.”

“Is there any way you can get through the shields?”

“Unless she wants me to know what she’s thinking it isn’t going to happen.”

Daniel nodded. “Who are you?” he asked, staring at her as though she was going to answer the question just because he wanted her to. “If you tell me your name I’ll let you out of the cage.”

Kara looked at Miles. ‘The only way I can tell him my name is if I’m human and I’m not going to change in front of you, because I’ll be naked. If he wants to know anything about me he lets me out of the cage, finds me some clothes, and gives me some privacy to put them on, then I might think about talking to him.”

Miles smiled. “I have a message from the fox. She’s not going to talk to you when she’s naked and trapped in a cage, so get her some clothes and some privacy, and then she might talk to you… if you’re lucky.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

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Heh ... I like Kara in this one.