Sweat poured down his muzzle as the cheetah lowered its head. The cat immediately pressed a paw against the meerkat's tiny form.
"Hmm..." it growled, "what's this? Astray from your pack? A solo meerkat?" a male voice questioned. Ranek wanted to protest and scream out with all his might but fear kept him in place. "What, cat got your-" he paused, "body, I guess? What would you call it?" It asked. Ranek was too stiff with shock to register this as an actual question he was to reply to. "Speak!"
"I- I guess it- it would b- be you have my b- body?" Ranek quickly stuttered. The cheetah burst into laughter. Ranek couldn't help but give a nervous chuckle at the sound, although he wish he hadn't because the cheetah spoke once more.
"Silence!" he commanded. Ranek whimpered. "Now... where was I?" he pondered. Ranek didn't dare move a single muscle. "I don't exactly feel hungry, and you wouldn't be much more than a simple treat," the cat sighed, Ranek doesn't know how to feel being talked to like this, "you must be small enough to go somewhere else though... you got any friends with you?"
A part of Ranek wanted to reason with the cheetah, but what would that do him? The sudden thought of ratting his pack out seemed to bright up his face. No! No, no, no! That was wrong! How could he think of that?
"No, I'll never tell you!" Ranek grunted with a bit of courage, this only forced the cat to extend his claws.
"What was that?" He growled ferociously, "Trying to be brave now? Bit late for that, you should have run the moment we made eye contact," he meowed into the inferior meerkat's ear, "as I was thinking..."
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