[center][h1][color=gold]Kailani[/color][/h1][/center]

Another day, another rotation around this galaxy's sun. The sharp, piercing light was fascinating to stare into, as Kailani had found out when she had first landed. Not enough to stop her from tearing into the white pod she had landed in, of course, but [i]afterward[/i] as she soaked in this new environment. A soft ground that crumbled under her claws, the soft browns and vivid greens that painted the surroundings, and the bright sunlight streaming from the ball in the sky. She had spent so long staring at it, soaking in the warmth that settled deep in her scales, for a moment she forgot of the feast. A star, and what a star it was!

Then, as usual, the hunger returned. It had never left.

When Kailani got out of here, she was going to soak up so much sunlight. There was none of it down here. And barely any food! All 'rations', and 'portions', and 'controlled', and 'don't eat people'.

People shouldn't be so tasty, then.

Someone yelling broke up the monotony, prompting a tilt of Kailani's head to incline her ear towards the noise. Her eyes, however, never roamed from her task in hand. [i]Click click click[/i] went the little enrichment cube, the colored squares spinning this way and that. The voice outside her cell mentioned the Good Doctor Novis, but the harsh spitting words of a guard was her only response. Yep, that seemed pretty typical here!

But Kailani was so close! She had [i]two[/i] of the red colored lines set up, and if she could just get the last set of three in place-

[i]Click click, clatter[/i].

Honeyed eyed followed the path of the tiny cube that had broken off the larger one, bouncing away in its myriad of colors. Three sides red, blue, yellow. A corner piece, a fraction of the size of the bigger one, that finally settled a few feet away on the concrete floor with one last jitter of plastic.

A moment passed, the creature in the cell staring unblinking at the happy yellow that gazed back.

In a flurry of motion Kailani lunged for the small piece. Her knees scraped under the thin uniform pants against the concrete, spindly fingers scrabbling as she wrenched the piece of plastic to the muzzle locked around her lower face. The plastic cube bashed repeatedly into the bars as she struggled to force it through, and as the edge finally gave way a guttural noise crashed through her lungs at the scrap of sustenance. Within moments, and without any conscious thought, her fingers pried the rest of the enrichment cube into its smaller parts, each one disappearing into the waiting jaws.

It took a few more moments, relishing the scraps of solid material before Kailani reached for the enrichment cube to fiddle with once more.

... Oh. Right.

A chuffing sigh escaped the girl, and she spent a moment mulling over her options of what to do [i]now[/i]. Decision made, she promptly threw herself on the ground and howled to the ceiling gods.

[color=gold]"I'm hungry! I'm hungry. I'm [i]boooored![/i]"[/color]