cont. || @volcanicspark
Time was a blur inside that poor excuse of ocean that was the “tank” as he had learned it was called. He didn’t know how long he had been there or if he would be there trapped forever, he feared the later, staring with pity the behavior of the lifes that lived inside that cage with him. What had the humans done with those marine creatures? would something like that happen to him after? Would he become a brainwashed mermaid that would come out just to be feed?
It was kind of pathetic how all the animals would only function by food, but to his surprise he had come to realize that it was this that would save him at the end. Lance had noticed on the firsts days how up from where the sky must had been, the tank would open to poure down what he imagined it was food; parts of crab and fish that were devoured by the animals that were there. It annoyed him to understand that he had to go out from his little space in the fake cave to swim and pick something for him if he didn’t want to starve to death, having to give the humans the show they were so eager to see.
He just wanted to go home, he wanted to see the bright blue sky after a storm, the deep blue of the reefs but mostly, he wanted to see his mother’s face once again.
Lance leaned over his hands when the tank opened again, the food being throw at them as if he was just an animal. He was furious, yet he knew what he had to do now, he had been planning on it for the past few days and he only had one chance. Lance moved finally from his hideaway, dark blue iridescent tail moving gently at first to swim close to where the food was before he launched himself up, his tail moving as fast as he can.
He didn’t know what he would do after this, he didn’t know if he could even make it to the other side, if there wasn’t more humans on the other side, but he needed to try. He needed to escape. He tried to take a grip of the edge of the tank, air hitting his face before he was pushed away from on of the humans that was there, body falling into the water again.
“No... NO! Let me out!” He screamed, though he was sure nobody would hear him. Frustration took over him, body falling and falling until he met the fake ground, too tired to actually care of the humans who might had seen the show, too tired to move to his hiding place again.
