Primeval Drabble: Reflection

[knitekat]

Title: Reflection

Author: knitekat

Word Count: 100

Characters: James Lester

Rating: 12

Disclaimer: Primeval belongs to Impossible Pictures. Certainly not me. Writing for fun and will replace.

A/N: For P100 prompt 777: Ancestors. Idk. Set in my Cry Wolf ‘verse.

 

I waited for almost everyone to leave before heading for the menagerie. I heard the unease as I entered – a predator on the prowl – searching for the latest <i>guest</i> my team had failed to repatriate.

 

It was only chicken-sized but it still hissed at me, feathered arms raised in threat as its killing claw tapped.

 

I stared at it, wondering if this was how humans felt when they visited zoos to stare at the monkeys.

 

Not that this creature was an ancestor to my people, a different timeline for one thing, but… if events had gone differently in this world.

 

 

 

If anyone is wondering, their latest guest is a <i>Hesperornithoides</i>