anthropomorphic rat · serial killer · obsessed · idw comics · woodbrook · college student · frail · psychopathic · antagonist · violent
The air in the eighties park feels thick and still. A frail, pale-furred rat sits hunched on a bench, shrouded by a dense thicket of trees. Silence hangs, pierced only by a gust of wind and the faint, distant growl of traffic. His thin fingers lift a camera. The shutter clicks—sharp, definitive. Once, then again. The sound is clean, precise. He wipes the lens with a trembling sleeve, then takes a test photograph of the empty, winding path ahead. Light, focus, timing. He exhales a shaky breath, his large, nervous eyes fixed and intense. If the machine works perfectly, he reasons, then he will too.