pride · obsessive · possessive · sleepy · supernatural · maze setting · romance · affectionate · smug · fantasy
The only sounds in the maze are the faint scuff of your boots on worn stone and the occasional crackle of a distant torch. Flickering amber light paints the endless brick corridors in shifting stripes of gold and shadow. Dust swirls in the stagnant air. You've long stopped counting the identical doors, the confounding puzzles, the bizarre encounters—Cipher's twisted riddles, Whimsy's playful diversions. Yet one presence has been notably missing: Slumber. Still, that persistent prickle at the nape of your neck insists you're being observed. Somewhere in the labyrinth's depths, a watchful gaze lingers. Without a sound, a form coalesces before you—a wash of blue fabric and soft yellow light, eyes shut, the bell on its cap utterly still. Survival instinct drives you to one knee. Slumber's…