"Oh comet! I have something to tell you!" Astron chirped as he opened the cage door and unlocked the chains from comets arms and legs as comet looked at him confused, "what... is it...?" She managed to say and astron smiled, "well, I'm going on a small trip to another resistance base... I hear they have some supplies and we're running low... so, I decided to go and negotiate some from them... I also heard they have some exotic items as well... exotic spices, cloths, silks, you name it, they will most likely have it.." as he spoke, he led her to a room by the hand and when they got there, let go and walked to a dresser and looked in it for something

"Close your eyes for a moment.." Astron said and comet closed her eyes and felt something around her neck, she kept her eyes closed out of fear,

"ok, open your eyes.."

Comet opened her eyes and raised a hand to her neck and felt something there... "what's... what's... what's on... on.. on my.. neck...?" She said quietly and Astron pointed to a mirror and she looked at herself in it and saw that he had put a collar on her... collars weren't really bad in a sort of way, some toons wore them due to fleas so it was uncommon to see someone with a collar on... but this was different... instead of a traditional flea collar, it was metal, it looked like it was painted though strangely... something round and mint colored was in a small notch in the middle of it, it looked like a jewel..

"Do you like it? I spent the entire night working on it... it's something to remember me by if you miss me while I'm away.. it also has a small feature that I will let me know if you misbehave and if you try to leave, it will paralyze you and let me know your location so I can retrieve you and punish you for it..." he said as he grabbed a backpack and walked to the front door as comet followed, "but I know it will never come to that since you behave... won't you..?" He said and comet nodded and Astron smiled, "good! Now, I need to go so stay here.. I will be back later tonight, ok?" He said and kissed comet on the cheek before he left, locking the door behind him..

Comet stood there for a moment, trying to pull herself into reality, she couldn't believe she had an actual chance at escaping... I can't believe I have actually have a chance at this! This may be my only one to... I need to wait until night falls... which will take forever... she thought as she looked out a window and saw the sun slowly peeking over a hill, she sighed and then began the long wait for nightfall...


later that night...


Comet walked to astrons room and began searching for a key to the collar... she looked in his night stand and saw a ring of keys and quickly checked all of them until she found the right one, when she did, the lock on the collar opened with a satisfying clink and she slipped the collar off and threw it across the room, she ran to the front door and began testing every key frantically searching for the right one... none of them worked and she ran around the quarters and found a small key and ran to the front door and tried that one and heard the lock open...