The rabbit lying on the tray stirred. She groaned and her eyelids fluttered open.
Bunnie stared, her gaze focusing and refocusing on the steel roof inches above her face.
She turned her head, wincing and fisting her real hand. Next to her there were…
Bodies. Other people laying down next to her, in a long line.
Bunnie narrowed her eyes.
It was dark. Only a single band of sunlight made its way into the space, falling across her and the Mobians around her. Labored breathing echoed through the enclosure. The air was hot and thin.
The body next to her was one of the girls from Amy's school…
Bunnie turned her head. More bodies. Rotor lay on her right…
Bunnie tried to sit up, but she could not move her arms. Something was strapping her down—
Ice clutched Bunnie's chest. She caught her breath hard, gnashing her teeth together.
"Oh, bless mah stars," she mouthed. "Oh…oh mah goodness…"
Panic flurried in her eyes. She did not move a muscle.
Whatever they were in, it was moving. They were being taken somewhere—
Bunnie swallowed, turning her head as a dull ache began to spread over her shoulder. She had been shot.
Whatever she was in jolted and the movement sent a shock of pain through her shoulder into her body—into her heart. She let out a yelp, tears springing to her eyes. They rolled down her cheeks as she gasped for breath. She began to shudder.
"Oh, no, please," she mouthed. "Oh mah, help…"
The cart rocked forward, one cart out of the thousands stretching in a long line towards Robotropolis…
