"Do you remember your name yet?"
"... No."
"How about you tell me the story again. Be honest this time."
"... But I was honest."
Layz is my persona and sort of online identity, but in the end she is an OC. This is her story.
Three teenagers, two friends since childhood, and one who came from an unknown place, live and thrive together in an abandoned town, under the protection and guidance of a foreign but kind creature, whom they have named, Light. A being from the stars who has granted these three a small, uninhabited world. A planet like ball they can control and shape into whatever they want, like a storybook.
Light has allowed their imaginations to run wild, granting smaller, less important, uninhabited worlds. Light has given them shelter, and protection, only asking that they fill worlds other's of it's kind cannot fill themselves. But it does beg the question, how did they get here? What is their life like away from most civilization? What is Light, and what kind of stories and universes are they creating? What would happen... If someone found them?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
*****
It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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