W grinned—and for a split second, the kitten's grin was wider than its entire body, filled with stars that were screaming.
Kairo ducked into a stairwell that led up into the ground, heart hammering. "What do you want from me?" W TAILS CAT DELUSIONWORLD 1
W's tails intertwined, forming a spiral that glowed faintly violet. "In this delusion? Everything talks. The real question, Kairo, is why you still have a face." The kitten's eyes opened—one gold, one black void. "Everyone else here forgot theirs hours ago." W grinned—and for a split second, the kitten's
And the floor beneath them became glass, and below the glass, a thousand other Kairos ran from a thousand other cats, in a thousand other delusions that had already forgotten they were lies. "In this delusion
"I'm dreaming," Kairo whispered.
W settled on his shoulder, both tails now pointing straight ahead like twin compass needles. "Simple. I'm the debugger of this broken dreamscape. You're the user who fell through a crack in reality. Help me find the —the original lie this world was built on—and I'll send you home." A pause. "Fail, and you become one of them ." The kitten nodded toward the faceless crowd now filling the stairwell behind them.