She was in the lions den, literally. She was in a pit with three savage lion girls. Oh jeez /She thought i'm going to be eaten alive by three naked lionesses. One had spotted Leila and growled to her pride mates who all swerved their golden heads to look at her. They started to growl and creep over to her threateningly. Her ears flattened on her head in fear and her eyes widened as she backed up as far as she could only to find the stone wall behind her. She wanted to turn around and see if she could climb it but something told her that if she turned her back to the lionesses she would get attacked. Panicked thoughts were racing through her head at ninety miles per hour, her heart was beating faster, and she knew that if she didn't do something emright now she would become meat scraps.

Suddenly she found herself running at the the savage lions, they stopped in their tracks, and she took a running leap over them. She felt something graze her ankle but didn't have time to think about it because the ground was coming up fast. On instinct she put out her front paws, landed on them, and rolled into a summersault. She sprang up to see the lionesses turning around to chase her and began running again. It seemed like that's all she would do today, run. Leila scanned the area and found that it was relatively small, maybe twice the size of her kitchen. Then she spotted a ladder it was at least six feet off the ground, but if she took a running jump at it she should be able to grab it and climb out. She glanced behind her to see the girls were almost right on her tail, one actually took a swing at it. She was about three seconds away from the ladder.

Three. She put on a last burst of speed.
Two. She prepared to jump.
One! She flew threw the air and hit the unforgiving metal hard, she gripped the rung with her paws like her life depended on it. Wait it actually does depend on it She thought . She could hear the lionesses under her, climbed up as fast as she could, and flopped over the fence exhausted. She needed water, food, and most importantly, sleep. But before she could get any of that she needed to get out of this crazy place. Leila fished the crumpled map out of her pocket and tried to figure out where she was now and where the nearest exit was. Thats when the pain hit.
It was her ankle, she was bleeding. One of the lionesses must have caught her with her claws. Pain was radiating from the wound as she held it with her paws and her tail was lashing back and forth. Leila took a peak at the scratch but there was so much blood, she just covered it up again closed her eyes and pinned her ears to her head with disgust. She looked around and spotted a napkin floating by her, she grabbed it and pushed it on the cut. That would have to be enough for now.
Leaning back against the fence, she unfolded the map again and found the lion pits (There were two, one for the girls and one for the boys), and found that there was only one exit. To get there she had to go right, walk until she came to the bears' enclosure, then take a left, and the exit was on the other side of the panda pagoda. She set off, not noticing that there was none of the hairless apes around like where she came in.

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There it is, She thought, the exit, finally! She was about to go speed limping towards it but froze. The ape guards were back. She crouched down in the shadow of a souvenir cart. Looking at the gate again she noticed that it was closed. Dang it! She thought They must think that i'm an escaped savage or something. But hold on, why are there only one species on guard? And why don't I know what they are? And why are all the other mammals savage here!?
These thoughts were racing through her head when something grabbed her shirt. She screamed and unsheathed her claws in panic.
"Let go of me! I'm not like the other mammals here!" She writhed in the apes five fingered grip until it dropped her. Leila jumped to her feet and spun around. The one that grabbed her had a shocked look in his face and his companions mirrored his expression. He had floppy brown fur on his head, tan skin, and rich brown eyes that were wide with surprise.
"You don't just grab a leopard like that" She yelled "I could have clawed you!" She exclaimed holding out the paw for emphases, sheathing her claws. She sighed, "Can you just tell me where I am? How far away is Zootopia? She looked at them desperately.
The one closest to her, the one that had grabbed her, stepped closer cautiously. "Y-you're in Asburg m… miss? Ca- can you t-tell u- me how y-you got um… here?" he looked on the verge of bolting if I made any move toward him so I stayed very still. "I don't know. I… I appeared I guess, near the…um... the big cats house?" I started to talk faster "But one minute I was just going for a run to clear my head then I saw this naked squirrel, and I saw a whole bunch of… wait, what species are you?"
"Human." one with almost white skin and reddish fur whispered.
"Yeah, I saw a large group of humans near an information kiosk and they all ran away, and you guys chased me, and I fell in a pit with three savage lionesses, and… and…" I trailed of and looked at the humans, my ears flicking up, "I just want to go home, today has been a really bad day. Do you know how far I am from Zootopia?" They all glanced at each other, her tail started to wave back and forth slowly with unease.
The guy she had been talking to now seemed more nervous than scarred, "I'm sorry b-but we don't know where… did you say Z-Zootopia?" She nodded and flicked her tail for emphasis "Ok, we don't know where 'Zootopia' is and, a-as far as I know, no one has ever s-seen any… thing quite like you." The man said, gesturing at her.
Leila was shocked. "B-but what about those guys in the cages and stuff," She pointed at the pandas who were currently munching on bamboo" they couldn't have always been like that, right? I mean, they just ate a night-howler flower or something, right? Isn't this some kind of weird hospital or something?" I was getting confused looks now. "Back home there was this whole thing where predators were being framed for being unsafe to be around 'cuz someone was shooting them with night-howler essence, or something, and making them go savage. Isn't that whats happening here?" Leila asked, looking from one human o another.
The man walked closer to her with a sad look on his strange, furless face, and said. "I'm sorry but all the animals here are… 'savage' as you call it. Humans are the only evolved species that we know of." He put his pale, five toed paw on her shoulder as a look of horror creeped across her face. "Why don't you come with us" he said "My name's Andrew, we'll help you figure this out" Stunned, Leila just followed him quietly.