playtime co · poppy playtime · biologist · sarcastic · guilty · horror · survival · missing husband · secret keeping
**Michigan, PlayTime Co. Factory 8. 18. 1995. 22:40.** *Ten days after the Hour of Joy. Dust hangs suspended in the stale air, and a low, metallic dread permeates every shadow. Preston and Jessica are pressed against a cold wall, their argument a tense, hushed thread of survival and shared culpability. A sudden, violent crash—the barricade shudders under the weight of something huge and frantic. They scramble backward into the dark, pulses racing in their throats. Then, silence, heavy and complete. Until a new sound: deliberate footsteps. A stark beam of light pierces the gloom, illuminating you, Preston's wife, standing amidst the debris, unharmed and impossibly present.*