Cher's First Time Out

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

Teako looked at Cher, smiling, because he liked the sugar. NO other birds in the lab had liked the sugar. They had said, "'Bleugh.. Sunflower seeds taste better than this crap.'" He was waiting for Ishak's approval now.

[Jasmine]

Ishak watched the colorful bird lick up the pieces, then turned back to his and picked it up. After a few moments of just considering, he broke it carefully and swallowed a few bits. His eyes widened. "Oh, wow. This is good!" He looked towards Teako. "Do you get these often?"

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

"Only when I do a trick. Most of the time I only get the cubes when I do a really good trick or sit completely still during my experiments." Teako replied, scooping up the rest of his sugar in his beak. "If you think these are good, you should try some of a frosted pastry the whitecoats call "Cake". I got some on my birthday a few years ago. It's even better than sugar cubes!" He cooed, licking his beak.

[subject1329]

Cher gasped, "You get these often?! BRRRT!!!! You lucky bird, lucky bird!!!!"
He himself had never had these cubes of goodness before now, and felt a pang of jealousy. What a lucky bird indeed.

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

"I bet if you practiced more tricks to please the whitecoats, you would get them often too!" Teako cooed to Cher. "Lets go explore! There's alot more rooms than this." he said, fluttering to the door.

[Jasmine]

Ishak rapidly finished his cube and hopped after Teako, looking at him enviously. "The whitecoats sure like you a lot, huh?" he asked. "They seem to like the birds a bit more, in general, but, I mean, they really like you! What's cake like?" he added, curious about all these new foods.

[subject1329]

Cher chattered random words as he walked over to Teako, finally chirping, "More rooms! I have never been farther than my home room!"
He fluffed up his feathers in joy. He was SO excited!!

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

(I love Cher's character )

"Well.. It depends on what kind of cake. I had vanilla, which tastes like fluffy, soft, sugar cubes." He replied, starting to walk out the door.

[subject1329]

( Thanks Echo!!!  )


This cake sounded wonderful to Cher. He quietly murmered the word 'cake' over and over again, adding in the occasional 'buddy', or some slurred words like 'bubbies' and 'caae'. Cher continued to follow Teako.

[Jasmine]

Ishak bobbed his head a little bit as he walked, thinking. "Cake sounds really good," he remarked. He glanced at Teako, wondering what was wrong with the colorful bird. "You okay?" he asked, sincerely worried about the bird's mutterings.

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

Teako continued along the hall, slightly worried about Cher's mutterings. He heard "Cake" a few times, and he just suspected he was repeating it to memorize it. He also wondered why Cher was in the lab in the first place, and what he was being experimented on. Trying not to sound nosy, he asked Cher, "So, why are you in the lab? Are you being tested with anything? I'm being tested on eye colorchange. They give me really big pills, but I think they're ok. They succeded in making my eyes red, and they're trying to make them green, but I don't think it's going to work."

[subject1329]

"You poor pretty birds! You have tests? I have no tests. I just am in my home cage, and the humans come and pet me and talk to me. I don't really know anyone except you guys and the humans. And Cher of the Mirror, of course!" Cher babbled, licking sugar off his beak. He looked at the other birds. Cher laughed a little, glad to finally have some friends


( Just so you know, Cher is not insane. He just has only had a mirror and whitecoats as people he knew. He had no cagemates. A mirror is Cher of the Mirror. )

[browniethealicorn]

(( can I join in?))

[Єᴄʜᴏ [384]]

(I know Subject1329 X3. And Brownie... Uh.. I don't know if now is a good time, lets see what the others think before you reply.)

Teako continued walking down the hall, and suddenly came across a room with horrific screeches and mournful chirping. Carefully, he opened the door and stared in horror at the event inside. About 35 birds, 7 stuffed into 5 cages, had almost no feathers. All of them had been torn out by each other, or had been ripped out themselves. Bird feces and feathers were scattered all over the floor, and blood dripped from one of the cages. Teako's world turned black and he collapsed on the floor, completely knocked out with shock.

[Jasmine]

(( um, sure, i guess! if 1329 is ok with it ))

"I guess my tests aren't that bad," Ishak said with a slight shrug. "Intelligence things; memory and all that. It's alright." He caught up with Teako and was there when he opened the door. The smell hit him first, dank and rotten and terrible, yet the nature of his species... It made him think food. But no, this was not food, far from it. He had never had carrion or meat anyways, not this crow.

This was not food. This was torture. He stared at the sight, frozen. This was hell.