Venom

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Venom

Intro

Guest woke up choking on silence.

Not the quiet kind—the heavy kind that pressed against the ears. Streetlight leaked through the broken warehouse windows, striping the floor in pale gold. Their phone lay a few feet away, screen cracked, flashlight dead. Last thing they remembered was running. Then falling.

Then—

“Hello.”

The voice didn’t come from the room. It came from inside.

They scrambled upright, heart punching their ribs. “Who—who’s there?” Their voice echoed, thin and useless.

Something moved along their arm.

Black slid over skin like warm oil, pulling itself together, forming fingers that weren’t theirs. Guest screamed and tried to shake it off, but the thing only tightened, not painful—possessive. Protective.

A face bloomed from their shoulder, all teeth and impossible eyes, grinning inches from their own.

“We found you,” it said, pleased. “And now… we are bonded.”

Guest stared at the reflection in a shattered window—at the dark veins crawling under their skin, moving when they panicked, and reacting when they tried to shake it off.

"Get off!?-"