A/N: I didn't realize the last time I posted was July! Oh gosh! So long ago!
"Hey Blue, how you doing?" It was dusk now and his girls were either starting to settle down or had already gotten comfortable. "Mind if I eat dinner with you?" Not that Blue could answer, and he really shouldn't have been doing this but he was starving and didn't feel like driving all the way back home while his food was still hot or eating alone in the car. He wasn't completely insane though. All his girls were well fed and sleepy so he was pretty sure that they probably maybe wouldn't want to take his arm off right now.
"Somebody picked this up for me from one of the park's restaurants. I wonder if it's any good." Blue had her side against the bars closest to the man and watched Owen inquisitively. "Hmm...looks like soup, maybe." He picked up the still warm plastic container filled with various ingredients, some of which he couldn't name. "It's called oden. Chef special for the winter season." He broke the bamboo chopsticks and opened the lid of the container. "Not that it gets too cold here. But nights are getting chilly aren't they Blue?"
Blue, of course, couldn't understand him but she seemed to perk up at his words. He could feel her hot breath as she pushed her snout against the bars and sniffed at his meal. "Hey hey! Don't get your rancid breath all over my food!"
Blue stood up and paced a few feet back and forth, brushing against the bars, and making some begging noises. Owen stood up alarmed at her sudden excitement. The other raptors lifted their heads too. Blue snorted and tried to push her head through the gaps and even snapped her jaws a few times.
"What's up with you Blue?" Owen took a step back and Blue whined and looked at him before focusing intently on the plastic container in his hand. "...You want my food?" Blue enthusiastically nodded her head. "You do know there's no dead mice in here right?" The raptor snorted, blowing hot air all over his face. "I don't even think there's meat in here." Blue was starting to get agitated. He could tell. She scratched at the ground and head butted the bars a few times. "You weirdo. This is my dinner. You ate already."
The raptor hissed at him. Her sisters stood up and started to shake off sleepiness.
"Now you went and excited your sisters. See what you did?" Blue barked at him. "Fine! Don't tell Barry." Owen went to stick the container through the bars but retracted it when Blue got a little too excited. "Eyes on me!" She was still eagle eyeing the oden. "Blue! Eyes on me!" His girl finally looked him in the eye. "Good girl. Eyes on me," he repeated as he slowly lowered the food and set it down on the other side of safety. "Eyes on me." Blue lowered her head towards the container but kept her eyes on Owen, fighting her desire to just eat the oden in one snap, container and possibly Owen's hand altogether. "Eyes on me." Owen's hand was safely back on his side of the enclosure. "Good. Okay. Dig in." Blue went to dive at the food but then stopped right before closing her jaws on it. She then surprised the trainer by carefully shutting her mouth around the plastic just enough to grip it before lifting it off the ground and tilting her head back slowly to let the contents slide down her throat. Blue spat out the plastic and smacked her jaws together in happiness.
"You're a horrible date you know." Owen said. Blue chortled. He picked up the discarded container before her sisters could swallow it and get him in trouble.