[Chapter 4: Ephemerality]

The rise and fall of humanity is coming to a close. Barely a hundred humans are still out there. It's been almost 2 months since the Boykissers waged war on humans. There's not much left of humanity, the Boykissers repopulated what the humans left behind in their panic; houses, cities, appliances, the internet, even the damn news channel. You were nearby when the boykissers began to spread that terrifying infection, barely escaping yourself, leaving all your friends and family to inevitably join the white fluffy monsters. Since then, you've been just surviving. You were smarter than most of the survivors though, realizing that the Boykissers would send out troops to the edges of the planet to sweep out any humans who thought to get as far away from them as possible. You returned to the city when the commotion calmed down, knowing that it meant no humans were left in that city. Instead of an eerie silence, the city was bustling with the little boykissers, going to stores, to work, to their families. Being surrounded by them gave you a sense of imposter syndrome at some times.

You became a hermit, staying in a house, keeping quite, and putting up your best boykisser voice when boykissers came to your door. Of course, the boykissers had a delivery app which you used to get food and water. Life seemed...content at times. But you knew it was too good to last long.

It was late at night, you were watching tv, most human-made films had been taken down and replaced with Boykisser-made films, aside from animated films. There was one you were binging while eating cereal called "Our little hosts" which depicted the details of how boykissers infected humans and took them as hosts. It unsettled you a bit so you turned it off and went to sleep.

You woke up in the middle of the night with an uneasy feeling of being watched. You looked to your window, and with horror, saw a Boykisser standing right next to your bed, wearing that innocent smile and holding their paws in a patient manner. The moonlight barely illuminated the room. You were quick to notice one of your hands had been handcuffed to one of the bedposts. Crap...

Boykissers: "Hehe, how silly. Not you of course, your whole 'hiding under our tails' was a pretty solid plan, but like you silly humans do, you didn't notice a very big mistake. The account that you've been using to deliver food, you forgot that it was a human account. Hehe. We didn't notice at first cause duh, what human would be ordering from the enemy's services? But, we eventually found out and I was specifically chosen to come greet you. Sorry about the cuffs by the way, can't really give you a chance to escape, but hey, after you finish your little transformation, we can be roommates! Well uh, guess I should...you know. Also, you can call me Azreal."