#good news is tomorrows prompt is concussed caretaking so you can probably see what I’m doing here

[re-whump]

Augusnippets Day 4 - Degloving

Mozzy’s bad day, continued (but stands on its own)

Contains: degloving, tiny whumpee (borrower), emeto, gore, accidental whumper

They couldn’t see the sky anymore for the monolith in front of them, which mean they were very, very close to getting Inside. It was hard to tell exactly how close with all the mist the rain kicked up and their eyes were pretty lousy anyways. They couldn’t even be sure it was the same building they had intended to reach. They just needed to get out of the rain.

That’s all they wanted. They’d lost everything and all they asked for was a place to get warm and dry.

What they got instead was a human.

Lightning flashed overhead in a brilliant streak reminiscent of of any other hiding place being torn away and Mozzy froze on instinct as they saw the colossus lumbering through the storm, unimpeded by the blinding mists. It was coming straight for them, whether it had noticed them or not.

Mozzy dove out of the way, narrowly avoiding getting crushed by the human’s sneaker. It still wasn’t enough. The human’s shoe came down on their tail, killing their momentum with an agonizing crunch. They stumbled face first into the asphalt.

“Oh, what now?” the human huffed.

A light appeared overhead, too steady to be from the storm. Mozzy knew they were supposed to run. But they knew it the same way a drowned man knows he needs to breathe, helpless to do anything about it. They should at least look up and see what the human was doing. They were transfixed by the smear of gore sitting between themself and the human’s raised shoe, a streak of meat and hair and blood that belonged on the end of their tail.

It could have been worse. It could have been all of them caught and pulverized underneath the stranger’s shoe. It could still happen. They needed to run! They got to their feet but their tail, their poor tail twitched fearfully, reflexively, and struck bloody bone against the ground. Just the sound of it made their stomach churn until they were on their knees vomiting.

The human yelped and scrambled back when they caught sight of what they’d stepped on. The massive, sudden movements only made Mozzy’s nausea worse. They were looking down when the light swung wildly around so they hardly had time to process why it seemed the sky was falling before the corner of a heavy phone cracked against their head, knocking them out.

Then the light was gone and Mozzy was defenseless to this monster that had just maimed them.