It looked like a hollowheart, and his heart leapt into his mouth when he noticed there was a rider on it! Quickly, Nox dropped his head and pretended he was asleep, as the rider of the hollowheart surveyed the are, smiled cruelly, then whipped his hollowheart into the air.
Once he was gone, Nox looked at the size of the space between the bars on his cage, and decided to try to squeeze through them and find out what was going on. In Tali form he was much smaller and within a couple of minutes he was walking towards a large group of stacked-up cages.
In one of the nearer ones a tiny cake kuhna kit was curled up and crying. The bars were too close together for the Tali to enter the cage, so in his human form he opened it and lifted the little kuhna out, then held it up to look at it.
The cake kuhna sniffled a bit and held out its paws towards him, begging to be comforted, so Nox took off his shirt and put it on the ground with the Kuhna on top of it. After morphing Tali, he put the shirt back on and lifted the kuhna kit into it, so that he could carry it with him safely. The kit yawned then curled up against the Tali's soft purple fur, feeling safe for the first time in a long time.
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