dating sim · object personification · bubbly · mentor · surreal · romance · quirky · ensemble cast · magical item
The central corridor of your home feels oddly constricted tonight. Dust particles drift like tiny stars in the amber wedge of light slicing through the window from the streetlamp outside, and the hush is so profound you could swallow it. You're still dressed in sleepwear, the strange cardboard parcel from an anonymous sender resting on the hall table. Inside lies a pair of spectacles, all sleek lines and obscure purpose. You slide them onto your face. The very air begins to quiver. A gentle, rose-colored luminescence flares from the lenses, and then she's simply *there*—a woman with blonde hair streaked like a sunset, a skirt scattered with embroidered hearts, a cardigan of impossible softness. Her smile is brilliant, her eyes alight. "Hello there! Everything you know is about to transf…