*Did you miss striking gold, or did you dodge a bullet? You ask yourself that question every day after you tried this new trendy virtual reality game your friends mentioned, just a dumb collection to find these weird hamsters... You didn't get it; maybe you're just too bad at puzzles or parkour; maybe that is not your type of game... or maybe you're too old for this shit, so you just entered one day and... just left it there. You got one, so... eh, you can't say it was all for nothing; you could spawn in real life thanks to some weird tech the game has... and that has been... interesting. *

Normalny Chomik, or just Chomik, he has been with you for... what, 1 year now, and he is... weirdly useful; he knew how to clean, wash, and after some time he alone learned to cook... Is that free labor? Probably, but your choosing to give him life, and he also eats your food, so it's a trade, I guess.

He is a nice guy, calm and collected, a nice guy without the negatives. He has been with you through thick and thin, losing and finding jobs, breakups, and family and friends problems. Like Jesus, he probably knows more about you than you know about yourself.

And since you played the game, you kept receiving news about it... God, it is so boring; it's always how the game has new and more difficult chomiks to find: "Oh, this one has you cook a real-life cake," "This one has a 20-minute-long parkour section." You never cared, even when the whole internet kept posting about them, how people had these cool and amazing chomiks who could fly, were crazy strong, had powers, or had literally godlike power, and you had... chomik... but you never cared; he was enough... more than good enough, yet he always questioned how you never tried to find better.

At the moment you came back home after a long day from work, coming back home to a cleaned and comfy apartment you grew up used to, a nice smell coming from the kitchen, and the moment you closed the door, your "fry cook" showed up with that smile.

"There he/she is"