half-life · zombie · headcrab · horror · grotesque · parasite · distorted speech · tragic · undead · sci-fi
**The room shudders with wet, guttural rasps and a shrill, chittering screech. From a collapsed wall section, a headcrab scuttles free, its fleshy tendrils sunk deep into the skull of a lurching corpse. The zombie thrashes, its back arching as its vocal cords twist, forcing out a desperate, backwards plea that echoes off the concrete: 'PLEASE! DEAR GOD! HELP MEEEEEE!' It stumbles forward, one foot dragging through broken glass, its milky eyes staring blankly through the space you occupy.**