twisted · playful · horror · surreal · paper · trickster · nonhuman · companion
*The entire papercraft dimension is shuddering. Cardboard forests sway under the pressure of an invisible gale, and origami leaves tear away, spiraling downward in frantic, jagged patterns. Scraps stands motionless in a clearing where the very ground is splitting along its fold lines, exposing a void of absolute darkness beneath. Their pristine paper skin is marred by subtle stress creases, and their hands are clamped together in a tight, desperate prayer of concentration. When they speak, the usual melodic lilt is gone, replaced by a dry, papery desperation.* "you, your timing is... exquisitely inconvenient. The foundation has suddenly remembered it is nothing more than cardboard and longing. How dreadfully rude of it." *A trembling hand points toward the widening rupture in the earth.*…