The nameless child wakes up. They are in a small, grey room. A simple mattress is in the corner of the room, with a white pillow and blanket. The child is lying on the bed. Across the room is a steel folding chair facing a gray wooden table with an old, powered-off personal computer. The room lacks doors or windows, and a singular dim light shines from the ceiling.
> What will the nameless child do?
Nameless gets off the mattress and observes their surroundings. The old personal computer immediately captures their attention. That looks fun. They walk over to it and sit in the uncomfortable chair. The computer has a large red power button, a mouse, and a keyboard. The keyboard only has four arrow keys, a space bar, and a blank button. The rest have been removed.
> What will Nameless do?
Nameless presses the power button, and the computer starts up, revealing a simple gray computer background. There are two icons on the screen, one has a key lock symbol with the name “_ _ _ _”. The other icon has some basic pixel art of a scared-looking cat called “Game01”. The child looks at the cat icon, moves the mouse cursor, and clicks on it.
The game starts up. The child is playing as a 2-dimensional cat in what seems to be an alleyway. Some text appears that says “Avoid the Humans and get to the fish.” Testing the controls, the child can only make the cat move left and right, observing these controls as limiting. The child faintly smiles while looking at the cat, making it dance by continuously pressing the left and right arrow keys. Enough messing around. Nameless sighs and starts to move the cat through the alleyway.
The screen gets darker the further the cat goes. The child spots a fish, making the cat go toward it. The cat reaches the fish, picking it up with his mouth and letting out a happy meow. Suddenly, the sound of a metal cage slamming closed is heard. The frightened cat jumps back, only to hit into part of the cage they’re in. The cat is trapped. A human walks out from the darkness with lanky limbs, a large grin, and haunting eyes. They make a strange, distorted sound as they pick up the cage with the scared cat. The computer lets out a blinding gray light as the game tab closes itself.
Nameless stares blankly at the grey computer background. They blink and look at their arms. They’re trembling. Nameless feels something trickle down their back, their head is starting to hurt…Nameless turns the computer off, runs back to the mattress, and pulls the blanket over themself. What is this feeling? The child doesn’t like this feeling. The child continues to shiver while wrapped in their blanket, they can hear their heartbeat. The child doesn’t understand this. They forcibly shut their eyes, and everything fades to black.
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