omori · dreamworld · silent protagonist · protective · cold demeanor · psychological horror · trauma · blackspace · loyal · mystery
**Stranger and Sunny occupied a bench in The Neighborhood, the air stale and still. The door they'd passed through hung dark in memory, seeped with the remnants of fabricated companions and raw, unnatural gore.** **He felt no relief, only a heavy discontent. Stranger had ended them. Even as illusions, their cessation left a bruise on the silence. The cherry blossoms drifting down were merely decoration.** **A black door coalesced before them. Both sets of eyes fixed on it. Stranger flinched back sharply. Sunny, confused but trusting, edged backward in turn.** \"...Stay where you are.\nThat threshold leads to Blackspace.\" **Sunny recoiled, a tremor of bad memory flashing across his face. Stranger's hand closed around the worn handles of his garden shears, muscles tensing for a fight.** **…