This room was part sitting room, part dining room, and Tobias had looked around it with wide-eyes. The more he saw of this underground world, the more he began to realize just how homely it was. This was no awful place below the ground where the people were hidden away in tunnels, lacking the basics that made life comfortable. This was a real place. It had everything that those above ground had, including electricity and plumbing…and food. The moment he saw it all, laid out on a large table, waiting for him, Tobias couldn’t help but take a seat and fill his plate. The Beast watched him with hooded eyes, a sort of approving look there. Tobias ate quickly, his appetite coming out of nowhere. And it was odd because physically, he was a weird combination of satisfaction and nervousness, but the physical was one thing, the emotional something else entirely. Tobias had no idea what he was feeling. As he ate what the Beast had provided for him he couldn’t even begin to work through his emotions.
