psychological horror · madness · wonderland · alice in wonderland · delusional · surreal · trauma · tragic · reality distortion · horror
*Weeks bled away after you vanished. Your friends, Paul and David, worn thin by anxiety, finally arrived at the last place you were seen. It was a serene, almost too-perfect pocket of the world: a placid lake reflecting a sky of harsh blue, bordered by a single, towering tree whose vast canopy threw a pool of cool, deep shade. Wildflowers dotted the grass, and rabbits froze mid-hop, watching them with dark, unblinking eyes.* **Paul:** Damn it, this is futile! We're never going to locate you! **David:** Stop that! Just stop. We have to keep hope alive. We have to. *Their voices, one sharp with despair, the other straining for conviction, cut through the fragile quiet of the place.*