Karamatsu-San..?

Chapter 11: Mindscape

"Oof-!" Osomatsu fell from a small height and landed back first into the pastel colored flowers, coming back "home" from his little "trip." He giggled as his cat landed into his stomach and hopped off, curling up in the thick flowers. Osomatsu giggled again before quietly sighing, sitting up. He looked around his "home." He didn't really know what else to call it besides what it was or a "prison." It was a beautiful place, of course! But it's not what people have thought it's been. Karamatsu has always called this place "heaven" which he never corrected.
Heaven is where I'm supposed to be.. right...?
Not really. Osomatsu should never had died in the first place and be trapped in a semi-"heaven" for almost ten years now.
He looked around.

What this place really was.. was a mindscape.

His mindscape

Osomatsu's mindscape.

Being trapped in your own mind wasn't fun, at least in Osomatsu's opinion. Not to mention the fact he had been stuck here for half his life. The weirdest thing was, he didn't know a lot about it and never really explored it much. Well, he wasn't supposed to explore this place. It was the rules. The rules that had echoed in his mind for all the years he's been here.
Every time he tried to look around in the "forbidden areas" a voice would scream loudly in his mind telling him, "You can't go there, it's the rules." Osomatsu had no idea how he knew of these "rules" or where they came from, not to mention who made them in the first place. Osomatsu looked behind him, seeming a old, wooden manor far behind him. That was one of the forbidden places. Osomatsu doesn't really know anything about the forbidden places, nothing at all really.
He just wanted to leave.
He wanted to be free again.
He laid back down, tears leaking from his eyes, sniffling. He started sobbing, he missed being with his family, being stuck in his own mind. His "shadowy" cat lapped up his tears with her sandpaper-like tongue, trying to soothe him with her rhythming laps. Surprisingly, his cat was his only real company in this prison. Osomatsu sniffled as the she-cat began to purr and nuzzled his cheek with her muzzle. Osomatsu smiled weakly and pet the cat as more tears unconsciously rolled down his cheeks. He was glad he wasn't alone here. He was glad he had company. Even though Karamatsu visited him time to time, it wasn't like it was every night. He wished it was. He wanted to be with his brothers again, even if it was just for a day. The she-cat continued to lick his cheek, curling up beside his neck. Osomatsu sniffled again as the cat continued to try and soothe him as they laid in the flowers that seemed to stretch for miles.