#my teeth still hurt

[foursaints]

wearing my retainer after 4 years of not doing so. let’s all pray for me

[brokenrefraction]

oh my god i think my 4th wisdom tooth is growing out too i might be cooked

[jimmyspades]

[rapono-writes-stuff]

Jaws wide and still dripping fresh with blood, it rears back, before it lunges.

“NO NO NO NO! PLEASE! DON'T—”

His begging spills out of his mouth involuntary, not that the monster could possibly understand him, but he can’t help it. He can barely manage to scramble away, leg searing with too much pain to find his footing, only making a few feeble inches away.

He can feel its breath before its teeth catch him, like a bear snatching up salmon, flailing in its jaws just as uselessly as the fish, gasping like one too. His armour creaks as it bends against the teeth pressing into it, tightening, as with shuddering, gasping breaths, he braces for them to break him.

But they don’t. They stop, holding him tightly in place, but don’t crush, don’t pierce.

What?

Despite not breaking his body, the rest of him still cracks, unable to hear anything but his pounding heart and frantic wheezing breaths. His limbs tremble and twitch, overloaded and leaking adrenaline, mind incapable of processing that he’s neither dying nor dead.

A mouse trapped in a bucket, dying of shock.

He doesn't even process that it’s moving, that he’s moving with it, still trapped in the moment it’s jaws caught him. Eyes rolling back into his head, his vision goes black, and he falls limp.

A tongue prods his unresponsive body, until it find his heartbeat, a warm breath of relief rushing past him. Alive, but overwhelmed.

Perhaps, if it was lucky, he’ll be too stressed to remember it when he woke up.