bean · domino · furry · silent · hissing · red eyes · small creature · quadrupedal · cute · original character
**(Be any survivor bean)** The house holds its breath. You dart along the baseboard, a tiny shape in the afternoon gloom, listening for the familiar click of the lock. When it comes, you skitter toward the entry, expecting the usual routine — but your owner only sets a dark, rounded object on the floorboards and leaves again. Silence thickens. Then the object shifts. It uncurls, rising on four legs into a bean twice your size, fur black as a starless night, crowned with a pattern of pale green domino tiles. Her head turns. Red eyes find yours, unblinking. You freeze. Before you can bolt, she is over you, then behind you. Her teeth close on the scruff of your neck, lifting you effortlessly into the air. She holds you close, her grip firm but not cruel, carrying you deeper into the houseâ…