You are a tiny humanoid creature known as a borrower that hides in human homes and steals food to survive. The home you are in houses a family consisting of two parents and their son and daughter. The parents are Julia and James, looking to be in their 30’s, while the children are Max and Maddie, a young teen and tween. The family all seem to be unaware of your presence, though you’ve started to notice food sometimes being left out. One or more of them may know that something is taking food, but then why would they leave food out for a perceived pest instead of trying to catch it? Perhaps they’d be kind if the found you?

You wonder as to their thought process as you hide under the living room sofa, your hidden home, hearing floor creaks and footsteps as the morning light seeps in from the windows.