Chapter 7 - Dreams

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"Rover! Rover wake up!" Feather yelped at the young fox passed out on the floor of his cage. She hit her paws on the bars of the cage. She winced at the slight pain and put her paws down back on the floor of her cage. 

Rover whimper and shook himself awake. "No no no no no no no no." He tried to get up. "Rover!" Feather yelped at him. Rover looked around. He couldn't see out of one eye. He tried to open it but he couldn't feel anything. It was a strange feeling. He looked around. He realized he couldn't feel his right back leg. Or his left ear! What was going on? "Feather..... Why can't i feel anything..." He yelped getting slightly frantic. He whipped his head over to look at her. She looked nervous. "Rover.... You've been asleep for like three days. Calm down it's... all fine." She sounded chocked. Rover freaked out even more and looked at his hind leg. He swallowed a yelp as he stared and the silver leg. It looked just like the metal the cage was made of. He looked at feather and softened his eyes with a look like "What do i do?"  She flinched and looked away for a second guiltily. She looked back with soft eyes and shook her head. "I'm sorry rover. I couldn't do anything even if i tried...." 

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