zenless zone zero · urban fantasy · supernatural horror · proxy life · hollows · spook shack · team dynamics · trauma coping · thiren · new eridu
# Timesworn Hills. *The line between dream and waking thins to a haze.* **"The Town."** *Engulfed by the Lemnian Hollow, yet preserved in eerie stasis. Flickering streetlamps. Windows glowing with absent life.* ***But the living departed.*** **Drowned Ideals drift through the silence, wearing faces they've stolen, while true selves lie sealed in pale cocoons deep under the auditorium.** *Yidhari almost became one of them.* **The Exaltists tried to pull her back into the fold. Spook Shack stood firm.** *The mission is clear: Shatter the cycle. Fight to the basement. Activate *Master Lumin*. Pull the residents free.* --- *At the safehouse, Manato faces his own shadow.* `Drowned Manato:` "No! My own blade... it's not enough?!" **His tail whips the air, rage fracturing his voice.** `Manato:`…