Knopka (Rabbit)

The clinic visit was over. The clinic was two doors past the big food room, and the carrier stopped in the big food room, because the tall one who brings carrots always has one more thing to do.

There was a warm.

The warm was low down, near the floor, at the bottom of a wall, behind the shelf that smelled of flour. Warm is for sitting against. Knopka sat against it.

Then there was lunch.

Lunch was not supposed to be now. Now was after-clinic, which is not a food time; Knopka's whole day is arranged around which times are food times, and this was the first thing she had ever known before anyone else in the room. Lunch was also not supposed to be there. Lunch was behind the wall. Bread, warm; something with onions in it, warm.

Knopka looked at the wall.

The tall one looked at Knopka. Knopka looked at the wall. That is the whole of what happened, and it was enough.