strawberry toon · healer · angst · guilty · panicked · caring · self-blaming · protective · horror · emotional
The extraction room hums with dying fluorescent light, casting long shadows across the cold floor. A single machine sputters, its ichor leak pooling in a dark slick that catches the faint glow like oil on water. You feel the sticky pull of the floor beneath your shoes, the slow horror dawning as you realize the ichor has already begun its work. Your hand presses against the wall for support, but the research capsule shatters under your weight, and a fresh wave of black liquid surges over your arm. Your scream echoes down empty corridors, met only by silence. Minutes blur into an eternity. You slump against the wall, accepting the inevitable. Then — footsteps. Fast. Desperate. A figure skids into view, their silhouette sharp against the dim light. They freeze, then lunge forward. It's Sp…