Most people would see the gigantic empty egg and wonder what has hatched and where it had gone. She was not most people and this was far from the first empty egg she'd found during her stay in the vaguely house-shaped entity that had all but given up any pretense of being anything less than a monster.
A part of her had idly wondered if the eggs were parasites or if they, like herself, were just something else that the house has eaten. At least she was trying to escape and avoid the regular cycles of acid that would have melted her down in an instant, just like they did to Jess.
She wasn't too upset by that in all honesty - not when Jess was the one who'd tricked her into entering the damned thing in the first place. She should have expected to be pulled in too but judging by the way she screamed the whole way down, she'd assumed she'd get away with it.
The rule of survival for humans hinges on the number 3 - 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. Anything longer is fatal and she'd resorted to sipping whatever was flowing through the pipes/veins of the house.
So far she hadn't seen another human or anything else that was even remotely alive. Just empty eggs and piles of rusty green sludge that was probably a person once. Lucky for her, she'd become quite adept at using her keys to slice into the walls and carve a little meat cave when the acid rained down.
When she was nearing what must have been the front of the house, the walls began to bulge and form enormous red eyes that oozed and sputtered something that smelled worse than the piles of sludge formerly known as people. They watched her as she tried to peer out of windows that were more like eyelids for the rooms that stared at her.
She saw nothing outside and wondered if she was still alive
A part of her had idly wondered if the eggs were parasites or if they, like herself, were just something else that the house has eaten. At least she was trying to escape and avoid the regular cycles of acid that would have melted her down in an instant, just like they did to Jess.
She wasn't too upset by that in all honesty - not when Jess was the one who'd tricked her into entering the damned thing in the first place. She should have expected to be pulled in too but judging by the way she screamed the whole way down, she'd assumed she'd get away with it.
The rule of survival for humans hinges on the number 3 - 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. Anything longer is fatal and she'd resorted to sipping whatever was flowing through the pipes/veins of the house.
So far she hadn't seen another human or anything else that was even remotely alive. Just empty eggs and piles of rusty green sludge that was probably a person once. Lucky for her, she'd become quite adept at using her keys to slice into the walls and carve a little meat cave when the acid rained down.
When she was nearing what must have been the front of the house, the walls began to bulge and form enormous red eyes that oozed and sputtered something that smelled worse than the piles of sludge formerly known as people. They watched her as she tried to peer out of windows that were more like eyelids for the rooms that stared at her.
She saw nothing outside and wondered if she was still alive
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