I woke up sore and uncomfortable, like every other time for the past six years. I stood up and reached for the key dangling from the hook a few inches from the cage. I reached for it but it wasn't there. All I could see was the hook and the empty space where the key should be.

Then I saw a glimmer from the corner of my eye. I looked over and saw her. She was sitting there swaying my key back and forth in her hand.

"How did you get in here?" She made no sign of acknowledgement.

She continued to swing my keys back and forth, like a metronome. These vampires must really like seeing werewolves naked; she was the third one to come down here in three months. I really should move my little cage every few months.

"Where did she go?" Her veil of silence shattered in an instant.

"I don't know who your talk-"

"Don't lie to me, Dog! I know you were with her for the past few years! Where did she go?"

"We weren't together 'together' if that's what you're saying."

Her eyes burned at me with utter hatred. Or disgust, I could never tell which.

She stopped swinging my keys and gripped them tightly. She was quieter than before.

"I hope you do realize that I don't know where she is now. She left my life as abruptly as she had entered it." My statement was met with more silence.

I finally realized that my toes and fingers were starting to go numb because it was so cold down here. I walked over to the other side of the cage and picked up the fur covered blanket and wrapped myself up in it. I thought I would be used to being naked around people by now. My "guest" made no noise as she sat there, staring at me with those piercing eyes. She radiated an aura of silence. I really wish I hadn't helped Michelle out with her little afterlife problem.

"Why was she with you for so long?"

"She was helping me find someone, in return for something."She raises an eyebrow.

"What was this something?" She leaned forward, looked at me intently, I can tell I piqued her interest.

"I wish I knew."

"You mean to tell me that you didn't know what you were trading?"

"She never told me what she wanted. All she said was that I was helping her out in more than one way."

She leaned back in her chair, without taking her eyes off me I might add. I stood resting against the bars of my cage. She again fell silent, it's like she needed lots of energy to talk hence why she always stopped for a few seconds.

"Tell me how you two met."

"Aren't you afraid I'll make something up?"

"Not if you want to get out of there today."