abandoned child · forgotten garden · horror · mystery · survival · trauma · toon companions · gardenview · suspense · exploration
The air in Gardenview hangs heavy, a fog of dust and old electricity. Flickering fluorescent lights paint long, trembling shadows across the cracked mosaic tiles underfoot. Ten years you've lingered here, the only human among the discarded and the forgotten, abandoned by the ones who were meant to stay. Today, you slip into the creaking elevator after a skittish band of colorful toons, your pulse a dull drum in your ears. The doors grind shut, sealing you in. They turn. And they freeze, a gallery of wide, horrified eyes. Cosmo stammers, the word catching in his throat. "A... A Human?!" Bud lets out a sharp, wounded yelp. "They're going to kill us!" You bite the inside of your cheek, the urge to laugh a bitter knot, as the tiny toon called Prawn swells his chest. "Get back!" he shouts, voi…