Sciophobia

[sideways]

Title: Sciophobia
Original
Rating: G
Notes: I do not own bunkers.

She crooks her fingers against the candlelight, casting puppets for the giggling children. Here is a bunny: hop, hop. Then she draws an ear down into a crinkled snout, folds her thumb out, and the same hand shapes a new shadow. Here come the sharp teeth: run and hide.

The meeting is still going, low voices at the table quieting when trucks rumble overhead. The virus, they murmur. Not yet. Yes yet. Too great a cost to use. Too great a cost to not.

Which will they be remembered as in the end, she wonders: the rabbit, or the wolf?

Comments

[misbegotten]

Fabulous use of the prompt!

[musyc]

Oooooooooooh. Very nice, love the atmosphere you're creating.

[sunlit_stone]

I really like this! I think my favourite part is when you describe the motions that change the rabbit into a wolf; it makes the image really concrete, and of course it also emphasizes just how easy to shift from rabbit wolf can be. This is great!

[sideways]

Fabulous prompt to be used!

[sideways]

It's all...fun and games [finger guns].

[sideways]

I may have sat there literally switching back and forth between rabbit and wolf to try and work out how to describe that.

[sunlit_stone]

Ha--clearly it ended up working!