The shadow of the mangled beast crept under the doorframe, immediately triggering my hand to muffle my breathing. "Don't breathe, don't make a sound." I thought to myself. Tears started to stream down my brutalized face as I started to panic. "This is where I die! I have nowhere else to hide!" I thought, and as a tear fell towards the floorboards of the pantry, I realized how close my doom was. *Splat!* At the moment the tear hit the ground, the beast huffed and bolted away from the pantry door. I heaved a sigh of relief, only to be greeted by the bloody maw of the beast bursting through the door and closing around my arm.