2021-2022 Ultimate SciFi Smack Down Drabble challenge: 100-word scifi story about a pillow fight.

Pillow Fight

Dreamy confusion. Something over her face. Soft, warm ... smothering!

Orla grabbed at it—a pillow. An assassination! Panic screamed with the need for air. As High Regent, she'd been shot at, poisoned. But this? Humiliating.

She pulled at quilted fabric, pushed at it—won a breath, her assailant's hold weaker than expected. Why—?

Her heart jolted. No arms pressed down. Just pillow.

Her assassin was a goddamn Morphean mimic—able to take any form.

But not keep it.

A pulled thread. A disruption to a stolen physical pattern. The alien reverted to scaly flesh.

Orla found a neck to squeeze.