The Plotmaster (plotmaster) wrote in horror_story, @ 2013-10-11 17:19:00 |
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Any change should have been dramatic, after several days of stasis. The cells didn’t move. Where inhabitants didn’t interact with the ceiling tubes of their own accord, those tubes might have come loose of their own accord to offer a hint, though refusal to eat in captivity was hardly unexpected. The lemurs seemed to have no hesitation about it, and on the second day the group of eight lemurs was separated out into four pairs, a task that was accomplished with a shifting floor and an automated formation of new walls. The lemurs spent some time at the walls of their enclosures, but seemed largely undisturbed by this change. They weren’t the first generation of lemurs to be raised within the hive, so they were quite used to the arrangement by this point. It was oddly anticlimactic, that particular change, even for the lemurs themselves. |