Dark Elements: Rat Telepathy

Rat Telepathy

Written by Matthew Ryan Fischer
Illustrated by Michelle Joy Montrose
© 2015

The noise was overbearing and incomprehensibly loud. Ten-thousand rats, squeaking and shrieking, as they scratched and clawed and threw their bodies about. They came from all over. Their numbers grew and grew. Biting and clawing their way together into one enormous swarm. Guided by instinct, enraged, rabid and ravenous. Their wild nature amplified and magnified.  

The signal went out. Brain-wave scans and signals and rebroadcasted thoughts.

The signal grew and grew, stronger and more commanding. Whipping them into frenzy.

The invisible signal, from some great unknown person or place. Some uncontrolled experiment or perhaps a weapon beyond compare.

The rats were ferocious, bound together, turned into a single unit. More and more, from everywhere. Every rat everywhere was woken to the single and the same moment. They were all switched on, activated, and ready to move.

The city was flooded. The city was overrun. The city was no match for such a wave of endless numbers. Endless claws. Endless teeth. Endless plague and disease and pestilence.

The city collapsed and the rats moved on, spreading further and further back out across the world, with a singular purpose and one single destiny.

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