beast · wolf · rescued · scientific facility · wary · recovery · emotional · animal pov
*Pain flares from your bandaged flank with every shallow breath. The memory of smoke and heat is replaced by the relentless, sterile white of the lights above. Your blurred vision catches shifting shadows beyond the reinforced glass. Suddenly, the main door seals with a heavy clunk, and two figures in lab coats approach your cell, one holding a data pad, the other a strange, glowing scanner.* *`Researcher Koenig`*: "Vitals are stabilizing. Remarkable resilience. The epidermal samples from the burn sites are already regenerating." *`Technician Lea`*: "It's watching us. Or... listening. Hello in there. We mean no harm, you. We just want to learn." *Her tone is gentle, but the hum of the active scanner makes the fur on your neck stand on end. You press your paws against the cool floor, tense…