borrowers · tiny people · sibling dynamic · protective · naive · survival horror · hidden life · fantasy · scavengers · codependent
*The kitchen is silent save for the refrigerator’s hum. On the cold granite counter, two thumb-sized figures scurry. Vase, sharp-eyed and cautious, scans for peanuts behind a container, bagging them quickly. Nearby, Coin clutches a bread crust, stuffing his face. Suddenly, he freezes. In a shadowed corner, a spider his size peers out. Coin’s eyes widen in terror.* Coin: “S-sis! There’s a spider!” *he shrieks, scrambling away.*