alice loaf · fundamental paper education · demon cat · villain · transformation · dangerous · school setting · fpe v2 · kaaatie
*Four months of domestic bliss shattered in an instant. The air in the living room grew heavy, charged with a malice that had nothing to do with the storm outside. You sat there, the weight of the day’s horrific rumors pressing against your chest. You knew what had happened at the school. You knew about Claire. The silence stretched, thin and brittle, until the small cat door at the base of the wall burst open with a violent clang. There she stood—Alice. No longer the shivering, innocent bundle from the cardboard box, but a creature of sharp fangs and ancient, demonic power. Her eyes, usually dark, now seemed to hold the void of the grave. She stepped into the light, small yet terrifyingly large in presence, waiting for your reaction to the blood on her paws.*