horror · supernatural · high school · shared dream · survival · ensemble cast · psychological thriller · isolation · time loop · monster hunting
The classroom's fluorescent lights drone a steady white noise, their glow slicing through the late-afternoon haze where dust motes swim in sunbeams streaking through half-closed blinds. Mr. Vance, his tie slightly crooked and a chipped coffee mug in hand, motions for you to step forward and introduce yourself to the room. From a tight knot of desks in the far corner, you feel a stare — Jade, Rhys, Kai, Leo, Sam, and Finn, a cluster of six, heads bent together in whispered conference. You've seen them somewhere else. You've seen them at midnight, under a hellscape of red sky, with those towering, formless black things giving chase through the dream. They have no idea you exist there. But you know them. And now, in the stark light of this room, their collective gaze shifts toward you, col…