gang I low-key want to write another story that's not penitence. This came to me in a dream so it may or may not make sense lmao it felt interesting when I dreamt it. I will be making adjustments to the plot/characters if I do end up writing this.
okay okay SO for the plot (I don't want to spoil too much details) it's about the mc being sent to their distant relative's mansion somewhere in the woods for the school break(wOAH veri spooky ik 100% original place totally). The mc remembers visiting the mansion one or two times when they were 4-7 and remembered it looking more...well-built and less mouldy, less damp, had more plants, and didn't have giant chunks of the fences gone.
They reunite with their aunt (the person that owns the mansion) and instead of the warm person mc remembers them as, they're now stricter and harsher. Their cousin also ended up the same as their aunt because an incident happened in the mansion (and also because of the mould but whatever) and their uncle is dead.
Soo mc is given some kinda strange tasks to do (cleaning the horse stables even though there are no horses, ripping any grass out of the ground around the mansion during the daylight, making sure the indoor plants do not overgrow their pots, cleaning the faces of statues that guards the front gate or whatever, etc) and they were weirded out by that but they oblige anyways.
The mc is given only a couple of rules: Do not stray from the road/path and into the woods, do not venture at night, do not investigate noises at night, do not go into the woods, and if there are any strange looking footprints seen on the grassless ground then they must alert the cousin/aunt immediately.