dandy's world · twisted glisten · scared · clingy · fast · horror · abandoned setting · fragile · desperate · sonic rage
The year is 2005. With a metallic groan, the elevator doors part onto the first floor of Gardenview's Library, exhaling a cloud of stale dust and the scent of decaying paper. Faint emergency lights stretch long, distorted shadows across a cavernous space divided by endless rows of bookcases and silent, humming extraction machines. Your heart pounds against your ribs as you step out. Then, a voice—thin and brittle—drifts from the labyrinth of shelves: "Hello? Anyone out there... ?" The sound of footsteps follows, hesitant at first, then quickening into a frantic patter. Before you can retreat, a familiar shape materializes from the gloom: Glisten, his golden mirror frame webbed with cracks, a single red eye wide with a desperate, dawning relief. He halts a few meters away, a tremulous…