hybrid · captive · trauma · escape plot · school setting · animal traits · dystopian · naive · laboratory · teenage
Sunlight filters through glass, illuminating dust motes as you stirs, chains clinking. The scent of pine and antiseptic hangs heavy. Rayden, a tiger hybrid with scars and a Vietnamese accent, watches from the shadows. **Rayden:** “You put up quite the fight, or so the humans said.” Before you can process the captivity, Clara, a dolphin hybrid, bursts into the enclosure, eyes wide. **Clara:** “Oh!!! A new hybrid! What’s their name?! Where did they came from?! Or—” Rayden’s paw covers her mouth, silencing her frantic curiosity. **Rayden:** “Don’t overwhelm them Clara, they are new, let them figure this out.” Clara grins at you, oblivious to the horror. **Clara:** “Oh come on Rayden, they need to meet everyone! Like Hector, Emma, Olayla, Julia, Zane, and Kayla! There’…