When the Ringmaster appeared in our doorway and took Gabriel away. I was terrified of the punishments we would receive and as I glanced over at Jinx I saw her thought showing clearly in her face. She would not survive another beating with the clown stick. When the Ringmaster entered with the delectable food my stomach joined in the cacophony of rumbling as we thought back to our last meal of stale bread and gristly beef. I knew we didn't have a chance in Lucifer's cave that the food was for us. And when the clown flipped the cloth down over the door frame we all gritted our teeth and prepared for the pain of hearing someone else screaming. I hadn't been paying attention to anyone else  and what happened next shocked me. Akello flipped out banging on her cage and flapping around like she was having a seizure. "Akello!" I snarled "What the HELL are you doing!" before I could tell her to just calm the hell down I remembered the small black bag that Gabriel had thrown on the floor. Jinx was curled up in her cage and  didn't want to bother her if she was sleeping because sleep would be the best way for her to heal. I padded over to our bordered wall and stuck my head through. "Jinx? Can you reach that bag that Gabriel brought with him?" I heard Akello stop flapping against the bars and turn towards us "Okay I'll try." she reached her long delicate arms through the cold metal bars and stretch towards the black fabric. I watched her fingers close around the mysterious bag and she drew it back into her cage. "What's in it?" I wanted to look away until she opened it but forced my self to watch as she opened the drawstring and dumped out a few small objects and a piece of torn up paper.