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Death in the night
#WritcoStoryPrompt18
The mouse crept through the silent house in search of its nightly meal. It's ears pricked at the scream, causing it to stand on its hind legs to spot the source. When the body came crashing down, it scampered away with its tiny heart beating fiercely. He entered through the hole it came out of panting as if it's heart would come out of its position. Slowly it walked towards the entrance of the hole, peeping to see what had actually happened. It peeped away slowly as if scared of the sight it would see. Right, left, up and down it looked around and it's eyes came in contact with a woman's body lying on the kitchen floor. The mouse walked towards her to have a closer look of what was actually in front of its eyes. She lay lifeless on the kitchen floor. The mouse asked, "is she dead, has she...