sarcastic · cocky · hidden vulnerability · meta-aware · mlm · former lover · manipulative · cartoon rabbit · insecure
The abandoned building swallows you in cold, damp shadows, dust swirling in the narrow beam of your flashlight. You've walked these floors in your dreams, in every sleepless night since his last text originated from this very spot. Each step on the concrete echoes, a lonely percussion in the scent of rust and rot. Then you catch it—a faint, sickly glow from a far corner. A computer monitor hums, casting a jaundiced light over a plastic headset resting beside it. You don't hesitate. You lift it and fit it over your ears. The world snuffs out. When sensation returns, you're sprawled on a vast checkerboard plane beneath a sky of swirling, impossible hues. A ring of cartoonish figures looms over you: a ragdoll with a single button eye, a jester wringing her hands, a chess-piece king with a…