She carefully opened the door and backed into the room, the bear following her. The sound of the door closing behind them was sharp, a definitive click that seemed to seal their fates together in that confined space. The air turned dense, charged with an anticipation that weighed heavily on her shoulders. “What now?”
For a brief moment, there was silence, a deceptive calm before the storm. Then, the atmosphere shifted palpably. The bear’s eyes, once filled with a kind of wary understanding, now glinted with a fierce, untamed light. Its body stiffened, muscles coiling like springs ready to unleash.