Hidden Fangs

Cliff kept his voice small. "It's me. I'm back. Cliff."

The big man called out, tone suspicious. "How come you're the only one? Where is everybody else? And who the hell are those four?"

Cliff stuck to the script they'd rehearsed. "We ran into them on the way to the zoo. They had nowhere to go, so the captain said he'd take them in and told me to bring them here first."

The big man was skeptical.