Once I Was Left Alone

My consciousness returned abruptly—as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over me. Where am I? What happened to me? An accident!

Memories slowly return to my head. But where are the people? Why am I alone, and why is it so quiet around me? What is going on? Why does the hospital look like a battlefield?

There’s silence and no one… What happened? Where is everybody? For now, only questions.

While searching for people, I go outside. There’s even more devastation and fighting. Around me are spent casings and traces of hits. But what worries me most of all—there are absolutely no bodies. Where is everyone! This can’t be.

I hear glass breaking, and people rush out into the street. Finally… Wait! These monsters only looked like people from a stretch.

So what happened on the streets of my native Moscow? And what kind of creatures are coming toward me now?