So, another entry for the  Thursday_Prompt, this one from last week based on a word prompt of 'lamp' and a limitation of having to be exactly 365 words.

This is basically a scene from another larger story that has been in my head for close to 30 years now and that I've never felt really competent enough to write. (As well as having many other things to write.)

The idea was based on the 'Double Helixer'/'Wormholes' setting that was used for a few stories early in the run of YARF!, with the world background mostly set up by  tomclowder.and Ken Pick. The 'Double Helixers' were essentially furries genetically created by a rather unethical group, mostly to be pleasure slaves to the rich. Officially they didn't exist, so anything could be done with them. Eventually when they were discovered, a massive bust took the operation down, and then the world had to deal with the combination of a few hundred furry 'children' who mostly hadn't known any life that didn't involve being owned, and the fact that huge numbers of major personalities in the political and entertainment industries had bought into this and had to be put on trial. The children ended up being put in a school that was on a military base, with all the guards very carefully selected.

Millie here was an arctic hare Helixer, part of a run which was used to try and get the Hefner family interested. (Christie Hefner actually helped get a lot of the information needed to make the bust and shut them down.) Due to early trauma, starting with the memory implantation process the company used, Millie is also significantly dissociative, showing signs of what is often called 'split personality'. (The book When Rabbit Howls, an 'autobiography' of somebody with about 50 personalities, was another of my main inspirations for this idea.) Hence the swaps in voices.

(After posting this, I discovered I already had a different version of this basic scene already in one of my files from 1996. Oops.)