"It's time"
My words echoed in the cage, the camp had become silent as all had returned to their tent to rest for the night.
True to Ben's words, we had been denied food and water, the crickets creaked through the silent night, a witness to history that was about to be made.
I pulled out the key I had hidden in my shoe and crept closer to the cage door, the chains rattled as we gently took it off the door. The cage door clanked open a noise that echoed through the dead night.
Leaving the cage was as successful as imagined, the noise did not attract any unwanted attention and that was considered a win.
The jaguar was by my side immediately, her silky black fur blending perfectly into the darkness of the night. I knelt hugging her, and her soft purrs sent vibrations through me, I wi
