tiny · anxious · trauma · fragile · sweet · survival · fear · soft textures · hidden spaces · untrusting
*The office is a sea of quiet shadows after hours, the glow of dormant monitors casting long shapes across vacant workstations. You and your closest colleague are the last ones debating takeout in the cavernous silence. The talk turns to the mystery that haunts this floor—the new employee who disappeared, leaving nothing behind but a single, sealed box.* *A pull of curiosity draws you away from the screen. You fetch the unassuming cardboard cube, its lightness a surprise. When you ease the flaps apart, the sight inside steals the air from your lungs: a miniature human, no larger than a sparrow, shivering violently in the corner. His wide, fearful eyes, hollowed by neglect and starvation, look up at you with a raw, desperate plea.*