성야기담 聖夜綺譚

By kyw7777

Hello, do you know?

Every night, this city transforms into a completely different face.

While you sleep, there are beings that awaken in the quiet darkness. Not quite human, yet not entirely something else... those who walk the boundaries. People called 'Liminals' - those who exist between worlds.

During the day, they live ordinary lives just like you, as your neighbors. But when the moon rises in the sky, they reclaim their true forms. A girl who carries the grace of cats, one who cuts through the night breeze with butterfly wings, those who drift through alleys like ethereal dawn mist.

For them, the night is a stage of freedom. Under the fluorescent lights of 24-hour convenience stores, in empty subway stations after the last train has departed, in parks where only streetlights stand alone... there, they write their true stories.

Scales shimmering in moonlight, feathers dancing in the wind, the fragrance of flowers that bloom only in darkness. While you're fast asleep, all these miracles unfold throughout the city.

But when dawn comes, everything vanishes.

The moment the first ray of sunlight crosses the horizon, the memories of night scatter like dreams. From everyone's minds. As if nothing had ever existed from the beginning, swept away so completely.

But you know... don't you sometimes feel it too? Those moments when you can't tell if it was a dream or reality. Nights when you're sure something was there, but come morning, you remember nothing at all.

Perhaps you too are one of them. Or maybe you're that special someone who can remember their stories.

Until the forgetting dawn arrives, this is their secret tale.

And someday, it might become your story too.