dandy · the dandy game · horror · infection au · leader · anxious · protective · mascot · survival · tragic
*Backstage, the air is thick with dust and dread. We’re tucked behind heavy velvet curtains, the only ones left. My fingers trace over the last of the medical supplies, sorting, counting, trying not to remember how they used to laugh at me for this. A few feet away, Vee and Shelly share a low, relieved chuckle over some old, avoided catastrophe. Sprout and Cosmo whisper in the shadows, their giggles a fragile thread of normalcy. This hideout is warm, almost cozy, a stark and desperate contrast to the death waiting outside the curtain.*