Sauli's POV

One evening, as I was sitting on the floor in my prison/room, I again heard someone desperately screaming for help. The guards had found someone new again. And from the way he sounded, he was no different from the others when they were brought here. Every single one had been struggling and trying to get away, but they never succeeded. Never. They didn't have the strength.

And after a while, the guards passed my room while dragging the struggling man after them. My ears twitched a bit as I watched him. Something about him caught my attention. Maybe it was his looks, I don't know.

I watched him intently, my black-and-white striped tail swishing from side to side. I was always interested in the newcomers, but he was somehow different. I felt like I wanted to get to really know him, which was rare, because I wasn't a people-person. To be honest, I kind of hated people. And that's why I was actually glad that the guards never let me out from this small room. Though they did it only to keep everybody else safe. Because they had seen what I was capable of doing if I was let loose into the building. Because the only time that had happened, I had killed about ten guards and 15 other people. So that's why they kept me locked up.

Then, the guards opened the door of the room next to mine and pushed the guy in there, locking the door after him. And then, they turned their attention to me.

"We'll bring you food soon, Freak." One of them said mockingly and I hissed at them, my ears going flat over my head and my tail getting a bit puffy. They just laughed and walked away. I just hissed after them again before turning my attention back to the bone I had been gnawing on. I had to be careful with my sharp teeth though, 'cause I could break the bone into pieces with one bite. And that wouldn't be nice, now would it.

But soon, I lost interest on the bone and put it away, turning my attention to the newcomer in the room next to mine. He was pacing around in the room, clearly panicking and/or trying to figure how to get out.

"You can't get out from there. It's not possible. Not for you, at least." I said to him calmly while still sitting on the floor with my legs crossed. The guy immediately turned to look at me and his eyes widened as he saw the fluffy, cat-like ears on top of my head and then my striped tail that was now laying on the floor, only the tip of it was moving a bit. But he didn't say anything about my looks yet.

"How can you know?" He asked as he walked to the thick glass that separated us.

"I just can. I've been here for long enough to know what's possible. And getting out is not one of them. So don't even bother trying." I said with the same calm voice. "But there is one thing you should know, though. Tomorrow morning, when you and all the others get out from your rooms and go into the "diner", don't take the pills they give there. Hide them, crush them, but don't eat them."

"Okay. But why?" He then asked and I hissed quietly. I was starting to get tired of all the questions. I wasn't feeling very patient now, because I was hungry.

"You'll see. But now, enough of the questions. I'm hungry, so let me be." I said grumpily and glared at him, which made him shut up immediately.

And soon enough, the guards came back with a big peace of raw meat and threw it into my room from the small "door" in the wall. I didn't even try to escape this time. I just attacked the piece of meat hungrily and started to eat it. And yes, I ate raw meat, because I was half-white tiger and half-human.