Vi'el didn't know how long had passed...  She'd been watching, waiting for an opening - for a chance at escape.   Varuni was far more hesitant, even if the 'tests' were horrid things to go through.   But tonight, their captor - Claudia, a black and brown canine creature - had made a mistake.  Thinking there was no way her little experiments would ever think to run off into the large world of the unknown, she was apparently getting careless as ...