Thompson's Cat

A distant expedition crew drifts toward a silent, overgrown metropolis, its towering streets now choked by vines and its buildings crumbling into ruin. An unseen, deadly insect has erased an entire civilization, leaving only empty streets and the lingering question of what annihilated them. Commander Thompson and his team, bolstered by advanced immunizations and a reputation for invulnerability, descend to investigate the ghostly city, their ship hovering like a lonely sentinel above the desolation.

Among the crew’s few companions is Buster, a wiry, intelligent cat that has somehow managed to sneak aboard the vessel against protocol. When a crew member is suddenly bitten by an invisible creature, the once‑confident explorers confront a threat that their vaccines cannot explain. The mystery deepens as the team grapples with the paradox of being disease‑proof yet vulnerable to something far more insidious, while Buster watches from the shadows, hinting that even the smallest survivor may hold a key to understanding the planet’s silent horror.