She saw humans below and became even more terrified and the prey that she had held was now burned away. Pain settled in her chest because she wasn't going to make it home with the food, they were going to starve. She caught the image of another bird a bit duller in color and it was sitting high up in the hollow of a tree.
This was the oddest feeling in the world, her thoughts and emotions were not like a human's at all. Yet she understood worry, and pain and loss. There were no words, just pictures and feelings, images kept piling in of this phoenix flying off from this tree to go hunt and bringing it back. Of hunting with another phoenix, in all of these she never saw any more but the two.
However they were content and happy and living far from humans. Living free unlike a few others of their kind. She saw the duller colored one go into the tree and then she landed and a joy was in her, for behold! Eggs! So he was to be the provider now until they were born, his female could not leave them. They needed the heat from her body constantly.
"Kendra, Kendra!" Someone said next to her shaking her a bit. She blinked and the room was back in focus and she looked around. She was sitting on the ground and the phoenix was quiet. His black eyes burning into hers. Asking her, asking her to let him go, and pleading. Kendra just found herself nodding and then shook her head moving to stand.
"I... I don't know what happened. I just suddenly wasn't there anymore, I saw him get hit with the net and go down, it was traumatic for him." She said to their questioning on what just happened. The trance she seemed to go into.
She kept all the rest to herself. What if they went there to get the other one and the eggs? What if they damaged them by trying to move them? She didn't want to be part of that at all. Kendra straightened herself and the phoenix went back to its sad song.
"Alright no one touch the bird for obvious reasons." Riley said and Conroy looked at him.
"I need samples."
"The samples can wait until the animal calms down. We have to prepare the wolves for transport." He said moving off to where the three animals were pacing their cell. "Kendra make sure that they behave again." He said and then moved off. Kendra narrowed her eyes at Riley. Such an ass.
Kendra briefly spoke to the wolves and they were rather hostile toward her but then started asking questions about the phoenix. None of them had ever seen the bird before and they were in just as much awe about it as she was. Kendra left them and moved outside and it was dark now. She looked up toward the building and then heard a vehicle coming toward her from down the road.
As she turned her head she caught movement from the corner of her eye. It was a fast movement but she saw it. She turned back around and scanned the area and whistled for Bryce and Riley who were standing not too far away. Kendra knew trouble when she saw it.
"Something is here." She said. She didn't feel anything, but she knew.
"Where?" Riley asked looking around.
"I don't know, I just saw something move very fast over there." She said and Riley looked down toward the truck. "I want this to go smoothly, go make sure that it was nothing. If it wasn't, kill it." Riley said to them and grabbed a weapon himself. Kendra didn't go with the small group and Riley looked at her.
"Go with them."
"No I want to stay here. I'm not one for killing, and you need me with the werewolves." Kendra said. She had a bad feeling that something was going to go very wrong. She glanced up at the stars, but they were being veiled by clouds. It made her feel that tides might be turning. Kendra shook her head and moved forward. They were fools to think that they could keep doing this and not pay for it.
"Very well, we'll do this fast then." Riley said and the transport came up and backed up to the opening with the door open. Kendra was already inside the building and moving toward the wolves, she stopped to look at the phoenix who was sitting on the bench in the cell with a regal but sad pose.
She was thinking about how to solve this problem. The phoenix could not stay, but Kendra was at a loss. They would stop her. Besides she was there to help move the werewolves who were human looking and wearing cuffs behind their backs. This way if they tried to shift, their legs would be pulled out of socket.
Mirage the lead female wolf stood at the front and had a deadly look about her. Kendra felt an eagerness to Mirage. Kendra wasn't sure she liked that, but she kept her observations to herself. Hindsight maybe she should have said something. However Kendra truly was growing tired of this and was starting to doubt the real reasons they captured creatures. As Kendra thought, they moved to the vehicle that was waiting for the wolves. They got within ten feet and there was an explosion. Clearly someone else had come for the wolves.