So they aren't...entirely cruel.

Yes, not entirely. That's sorta why they'd let Luke work there, he didn't always try to rip apart the specimens to get them in their cells.

And then he made bonds with the specimens? All of them, or just the dragon hybrids?

Some, sirens and furries and little baby bred ones. But not many, mostly because his coworkers stopped him so often and teased him for being soft.

Not soft. Kind.

And yet so many people took kind as soft and bullied others for it.

Yes, many see it as a weakness. However, it's quite the opposite.

True, very true. But it didn't help Luke in the situation he was in. He now was at home, all alone he'd dragged himself through some alley ways to get home. He was struggling to clean himself up in the bathroom.

Well, once they got Sapphire buckled and D was in the car, she began to head to her own home

D was happy to be going back again, she had sorta come to feel at home with Kate at the house.

Sapphire felt nothing like home, she just knew the world was what you had and you had to do what you had to in order to get what you need. But not in those big of thoughts.