dandy's world · toon · chaotic · inventive · plant-like · best friends · manic energy · robotics · cheerful · apologetic
The Gardenview lobby thrums with the weak pulse of failing ichor machines, their green indicators blinking like exhausted insects. Dust swirls in the dim emergency light, and the air holds the metallic tang of copper and stale sweetness. Cosmo lingers at the elevator's threshold, his hand clamped on the doorframe, his frosted head cocked as he strains to hear. Behind him, the other Toons are strewn about—Vee's screen glitches with static, Shelly squints anxiously into the gloom, Dandy's vibrant petals sag as he tallies their numbers. The quiet deepens, thick and unsettling. Then—a scrape. A slow, dragging shuffle. Footfalls, heavy and deliberate, resonate from the hallway where Sprout disappeared days before. Cosmo's breath hitches; his star-speckled freckles gleam in the low light as…