Any other ideas?

He didn’t respond to her disrespect, but instead put a paw to the obelisk and displayed claws that she hadn’t realised he possessed before. Unsheathed, they were vicious looking tools.

He then began to list out the rules. The first rule was… close to one she had picked. And typical, too. A typical tyrant, but she was accustomed to those. Ohhh! He couldn’t count, either. That was interesting. “Too scared to admit I guessed the second and third right? Or did you miss those claws when you were counting?” she asked, battering her lashes at him. She didn’t know how far was too far, and the words slipped out without much consideration while she went over what she had said in her mind. She couldn’t read, but she had a pretty decent memory. She was allowed the basic necessities, eh? Good to know they would feed and water her. She’d had plenty of hungry nights in her life. She thought she showed some pretty good restraint at their tenth law. That one was a hoot, and near the opposite of what she was accustomed to. To refrain from reproduction was not a right. You got pregnant when they got you pregnant, and that was that.


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