Ch. 20 Caged Animal
Roaming through the mansion, Jennifer stumbled upon a dark, cage room. As soon as entered the room, she was hit by the horrible scent of rotting corpses. "Oh gross!" The scent was so bad that Jennifer felt as though she needed to hurl. Jennifer cupped her face with her hands and coughed. She felt like she couldn't breathe. It was worse than the flies in the fridge. She fell to the ground coughing to the point where her face turned red. There was no mask for her to put on neither. Jennifer had to inhale that horrible scent until she went nose blind to it, which took some time. When Jennifer finally caught her breath and composed herself, she rose up. Jennifer felt around for the light switch and flipped it.
As soon as the lights came on, the sound of rats and wings were heard. The noise came from the cage on the floor.
Jennifer had gotten so creeped out that she became immune to the creepiness. What first caught her attention were the headless, hanging crows on the wall. "So that's what I smelled!" Jennifer walked over to the cage to see what was inside. She saw 5 rats running around and there was a single crow left.
It was flying around just dying to get out.
"I wonder if I can let it out." she said.
She turned from the cage and looked at the table. Jennifer witnessed a decapitated crow and found a bloody key right beside it. What was Jennifer to do? Was she going to grab a key with the blood of a crow on it in order to save a single crow?
Nonsense! That crow is just an animal. It wasn't like it was one of her friends.
Why would Jennifer wanna save a crow anyway?
Besides, crows aren't even considered beautiful like doves, blue jays, macaws, or toucans. Crows are considered bad luck.
Jennifer had to really think. Was this crow worth going through all this trouble? She looked at the key and then back at the poor crow. She tried to imagine if she was the crow.
Even as an animal, animals don't deserve to be caged up.
So finally she sighed and took her chances. "Well…here it goes." Jennifer inserted the key and slowly turned it to open the cage.
The crow came rushing out. The crow flew around the room before finding its way out.
"I hope I find a way out of here too." When she realized there was nothing else to investigate, Jennifer turned around and left the room.