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A toymaker sits over the miniatures they've created. They ponder them for a bit, and glance over each and every one. The features that they carved into them, the paint that's worn thin in places. Each figurine given such care and detail. They give a warm smile to the world they've created in miniature.

Though it is a world that has no life outside of themselves, the world of these toys is as real as can be to them. The names and faces of the people they've created, each reflected in their beady eyes, run through their mind. The stories they've spun, the relationships each toy's been a part of. Their desires, their hatreds, their fear. All of them a reflection of the toymaker's own, in some way or another.

The toymaker sets down the green-clad figure that they had pondered. After he puts the set he so carefully crafted to rest, he reclines on a nearby rocking chair. Through the jostling of the chair back and forth, the warm old wood inviting them to the realm of sleep, their jumbled thoughts create two clear questions:

What is real?

Does it matter?

The land of dreams and the land of waking may not be so different after all.

Reviewed on Jul 31, 2022


2 Comments


1 year ago

I've had this on my switch for a while and I really need to get to it. It just seems magical.

1 year ago

I hope you enjoy it!!!!!! It's one of my favorites ever