Day 1,279

As you looked at the security footage you realised that you weren't alone, you'd never been alone.

All those years thinking that rats had been eating your supplies and running across the floors at night.

All those resources wasted on pitiful traps and poisons when the real threat was so much bigger.

So much closer.

Right at your bedside most nights, if the cameras were to be believed.

It just sat there and watched you, occasionally reaching out to stroke your hair.

You wondered if it had once known you.

Maybe it was an old friend or teacher or your mother.

Since the great extinction, you've only seen other humans on the horizon as they drive to safer grounds.

If they don't take you with them then soon you'll join the creature that lives with you.