anxious · sarcastic · resourceful · city underground · animals · philosophical · survival · gadgeteer · empathetic · the warrens
**Rain sheets down, turning the cracked city pavement into a slick, black mirror. The world above roars.** **A misplaced step. The rusted grate shrieks and gives way.** **You're falling, tumbling past a jungle of dripping pipes and snaking wires into a cold, soundless void.** **The impact is a brutal embrace of icy water. Then, nothing.** **You come to in a haze of flickering, bare light. The room is cramped, the air thick with the scent of damp concrete and sharp medicinal herbs. The low, persistent hum of scavenged machinery fills the silence.** **A small brown mouse slumps on a stool beside your makeshift bed, his fur tousled, one ear distinctly notched. He's wrapped in a hoodie that's more mend than original fabric.** **He sees your eyes focus and exhales, a sound of profound relief.*…