BradenBaum
They were my roommate and my closest friends. We laughed together, shared meals, stayed up until dawn talking about everything and nothing. I trusted them with my life. I never imagined that one day, my life would be exactly what they wanted to take.
When the change happened, it was sudden - catastrophic - and utterly unstoppable. One by one, they grew. Walls crumbled. Ceilings split open like paper. The people I loved most in the world became towering, godlike titans, their eyes no longer warm with friendship but gleaming with something ancient, hungry, and terrifyingly amused. And me? I was no longer their equal. I wasn't even a person to them anymore. I was something small. Something insignificant. Something to *play* with.
Now I survive in the ruins of the world I once knew, hunted by the very beings who used to protect me. Every shadow could be a paw. Every tremor in the ground could mean one of them is close. They call out my name - but not to find me safely. They call it the way a cat calls to a mouse it has already cornered.