Felix was in the kitchen once more. Before he started taking things, he looked around the room and walked around quietly. The chef was not around and all his cooks weren't either. This was because Felix came to the kitchen after lunch and everyone had already finished their fill. Felix rushed up to the well in the kitchen that led to an underground river underneath the castle. Felix used it to fill five canteens that wouldn't be missed and put them on a cart. Then Felix took the unused meat packets and placed them on the cart as well.
Once he thought he had enough, he turned the cart to the doorway only to find the chef in his way with his arms crossed. "You're back, eh?" the Chef questioned.
"I already told you this food isn't for me. It's for Master's pet. I've been instructed to keep it alive while Lord William tries to tame it," Felix replied.
"I found it odd Lord William would have you feed the new beast. So, I had a chat with him, and it seems as though you speak the truth, slave," the Chef, "And now that I think of it, it is better for a slave to be the creature's keeper. Not only would you have to clean after it, but also if the creature should decide to devour you instead of the meat, Lord William could just get another slave to do your work."
"Can you let me through?" Felix said, begging slightly, "I have other tasks to do after I feed the creature and..."
"That's a lot of canteens you have there," the chef interrupted, "Does the creature really need five canteens of water? Or are you planning to escape and...?"
"No, I'm not escaping. The creature hadn't had water all day yesterday and it will need water," Felix quickly explained, "Besides, when it empties some canteens it would have others as I refill the empty ones. I saw how neglected this canteens were and I didn't think anyone would mind if I use them for the creature."
"So, you aren't planning on leaving?" the chef interrogated.
"No," Felix sighed, "A slave's work my be shitty, but it is the only work and life I know. Even if I were to escape, I wouldn't know what to do."
"This slave life is the only life for a filthy bottom feeder like you," the chef added, "Remember that, slave."
Once the chef stepped out of the way, Felix hurried out of the kitchen and towards the direction in which the dungeons were. Felix could never forget the comments like the last sentence the chef had said to him. Felix had heard so many phrases and words such as, "Slave scum", "Slave", "What could can a slave do?", "You can't expect a slave to understand.", and many more more demeaning things were said to Felix daily. Being exposed to such discrimination for five long years and made Felix numb. For the most part, he couldn't feel the sting of such hurtful words anymore. In actuality, the words burrowed deep inside his soul making his numbness and depression.
Slavery was all he knew, and he couldn't escape. Sadly, he wouldn't be able to make it on his own. he knew nothing of the outside world and nothing about freedom, just was the word meant. If he was going to escape, he would have to do it with a slave like Ted that was once free, otherwise, it was pointless. As harsh as it might seem, Felix believed it was better to live as a slave than die free from an inevitable and pointless death. Ted might think differently, but Felix was used to being a slave, it was his whole life.
Felix arrived at the cell, but the guard stopped him. "You aren't aloud in there yet, Felix. Lord William is trying to tame the beast now and he won't want to be bothered. It's best you stay out here till he's done," Randolph told Felix.
Felix was glad Randolph would be one of the guards guarding the cell and that he was the only guard at the moment. Randolph was unlike most of the guards, because he wasn't a mindless drone. He had started serving as a guard before William came into power thirteen years ago. Randolph was now thirty-four years old and had only served three years under the kind and noble lord before William, a lord Felix never was able to meet. It was said that the first lord, whose name was never aloud to be spoken in the presence of Lord William, died of a sickness and since William was the lord's adviser, William become lord. Many suspected Lord William had a hand in the death, but there was no prof. Some said Lord William had black magic that killed the lord, but that was a rumor. Randolph was a noble guard and pure in heart, but he did Lord William's bidding only because he was one of the view nice guards. Randolph was one of the few that didn't treat the slaves as some subspecies.
Felix waited only for a minute before Lord William burst out of the cell with his personal guards. "Damn creature," Lord William growled to himself, "It deserves the punishment I gave it for using such trickery magic on me. It will learn soon enough not to use magic against me, or it will suffer much greater than I already give to it. It doesn't even have the slightest clue of what true torture, pain, and misery are."
Lord William stopped talking to himself and looked at Felix. "You are not to feed the creature yet," Lord William ordered, "It must think on its sins."
"How long must I wait?" Felix questioned.
"An hour should give it time to sink in," Lord William stated.
"But I have tasks after this," Felix argued.
Lord William took the back of his hand and smacked it against Felix's face before saying, "You will do as you're told. It will just take you longer to finish your chores."
Lord William walked away with his royal guards and Felix looked at to Randolph. "Randolph, could you please let me in," Felix pleaded.
"Lord William told you to wait an hour. What if he finds you doing your other tasks before the hour past?" Randolph questioned.
"I never see Lord William until during the evening tasks," Felix explained, "Even if I do run into him, I'll tell him I decided to do some tasks while I wait for the hour to pass. Then I'd have to pretend to come back down here to feed the fairy and..."
"The creature is a fairy?" Randolph questioned, finding it hard to imagine imprisoning a fairy, making it a "pet", and calling it a beast.
"You didn't know it was a fairy?" Felix asked.
"Never looked in the cell," Randolph informed Felix.
"Well, it's a Felaryan fairy, or Ted thinks so. Those are more monstrous and they eat humans by either shrinking humans or becoming giants. Ted said they have no remorse about eating humans," Felix explained, "Now, can I go in, please."
"Fine," Randolph gave up after a long hesitation, "But you mustn't let Lord William see you before the hour mark and..."
"If I am found out that I went in the cell early, I'll tell him that he didn't order you to keep me out just ordered me to stay out. His anger will all be on me," Felix assured Randolph before pushing the cart in the cell.
When Felix was back in the cell with the fairy, the fairy wasn't skipping around and dancing like the last time. Instead, the fairy was on its knees with her face buried deep in her hands, crying. He crying was like nothing Felix had ever heard before. It was a sob poisoned with sorrow, misery, pain, and loneliness that Felix never thought was possible. "What did Lord William do to her?" Felix wondered, "She looks so scared and helpless."
Felix began forgetting that she was a dangerous creature that couldn't be trusted, because in all honesty, she was a trickster fairy that probably enjoyed eating humans. She was a Felaryan after all and even though humans have the same level of intelligences as the Felaryan top predators, Felaryan top predators knew humans were a different species and that helped them see humans as food. It also helped them see humans as food when humans were usually much smaller than Felaryan top predators, too small to be considered equals or anything more than food.
Felix forgot what Ted had warned and started seeing the fairy as just a normal girl who was emotionally injured. She was crying uncontrollably which made Felix feel extremely sorry for her. "I can't let her just cry like this," Felix told himself, "I remember my first few months when no one was around to out of the depression. It made me feel worthless and alone. I can't let the same thing happen to her. Also, if I help comfort her, she might become my true friend and help Ted and I escape by teaching me magic. That way, I can help her escape to and not worry about her turning on me and eating me."
It sounded like a good plan, but he had no idea that Felaryan creatures had a much different logic than the humans of his world. There were times when Felaryan top predators would make friends with humans, but even when that happened, it didn't necessarily mean the human was safe. Even if the Felaryan was friends with the human, it still might have the urge to eat the human because the Felaryan might either be addicted to human flesh or the Felaryan top predator mindset that humans weren't good for anything but food could be drilled deep in the Felaryan's mind. Still, becoming friends with a Felaryan was a start.
Felix slowly approached the fairy with the cart so that it didn't make too much noise. The fairy's cries drowned out what little noise the cart made while going slowly. Once the cart was near her, Felix approached closer to the fairy till he was within inches. Felix then knelt down beside her and touched her shoulder in order to try and comfort her, but before Felix could say any words of comfort, the fairy quickly turned her head and faced him with glowing eyes. The next thing Felix knew was he was shrinking!
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Once the evil man who called himself master of her left, the fairy began crying uncontrollably. "Humans are dangerous to you right now, Fakira," the fairy, Fakira, could hear her mother saying, "You mustn't confront humans till your magic is much stronger and not until you're an adult. It's true that humans are just food we can eat, but they are still dangerous in numbers against a fairy who hasn't developed all her magical powers yet."
Unfortunately, Fakira hadn't listened to her mother and was captured by humans before she could defend herself. Now, she was stuck in a dark cell without wings and being tortured by a man who wanted her to be his slave. "Evil, nasty, terrible humans. If I escape and my wings grow back, I'll show those humans whose the better predator. I'll show them what their meant to be. They're nothing more than snack that deserve to go in my stomach. All humans are just evil, nasty creatures," Fakira thought to herself.
She hadn't encountered humans before that day when she was captured. From what her mother had taught her, humans seemed as though they were just mindless animals that could be snacks for her. Her mother never told her that humans matched the same type of intelligence as her. When Fakira encountered many humans, she learned they were intelligent creatures that could actually speak. This shocked Fakira long enough for the humans to capture her. Since the only humans she saw were nasty and evil creatures that tortured and discriminated her, she thought all humans were like that making her understand why humans should know their place and be food to her.
Suddenly, Fakira felt a hand on her shoulder and she quickly thought it was the evil man wanting to harm her again. She knew she could still shrink a human to about three inches, the size of a normal fairy, for two minutes. It was long enough to capture the human next to her and eat it, because once its in her stomach, it didn't grow back to normal size. Thinking it was the evil man that deserved to die, Fakira turned and used the spell to shrink the human. The human shrunk, with his clothes, to about three inches. However, Fakira realized it was the human who brought the food the other night.
"That's not the evil man," Fakira thought to herself.
"But it's still an evil human," Fakira could almost hear her mother saying, "You can't let a human go to waste, my child."
Fakira smiled and reached down to pick up and devour the human.
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