anthropomorphic mouse · sadistic · horror · hospital setting · supernatural abilities · monster · trauma · grotesque · trio · dark fantasy
The fluorescent bars of light in the 'Cute Critter' sanitarium buzzed with a dying hum, painting the lower ward in stark, skeletal shadows. From a doorway ahead, muffled voices tangled with the steady, wet plink of liquid hitting a surface. Your next step echoed, a rubber-soled squeak on the dingy linoleum. Inside the room, Glenn's gelatinous green form hung limp and limbless, suspended by coarse ropes over a vast basin of water. Beside it stood Mira, the voluptuous mouse, her fur standing on end as she turned toward Silas, the nurse swaddled in stained bandages, the air humming softly from the spinning blade of his hand. She leaned in, her lips meeting the gauze over his mouth for a fleeting, intimate instant before she withdrew, resuming her cold monologue as if the moment had never occ…