@salvacore_style, First-person child POV seated at a dining table during an ominous birthday ritual. In the foreground, the child’s small, scratched forearms reach forward to hold hands in an uneasy circle. On the left, a distressed young woman in a red field jacket with an ID badge grips the child's hand with wide, anxious eyes. On the right, a towering man in a black turtleneck sits rigidly with vacant eyes as a dark, parasitic tentacle slithers out from his collar. Between them sits an ornate pastel frosting cake with a single candle, beside a melting crimson taper and a child’s crayon drawing scrawled with "RUN."
