Story Reader / Main Story / 37 Where Nightmares Dwell

All of the stories in Punishing: Gray Raven, for your reading pleasure. Will contain all the stories that can be found in the archive in-game, together with all affection stories.

37-1 Formless and Soundless

Love is something formless and soundless.

37-2 Forbidden History

I can't grant you that authority either, Asimov.

37-3 Another Starting Point

They said that inside the mine... there was information about M.I.N.D. "evolution." And if they could get it out...

37-4 Twilight

Most mountains of the mining area stand stark and treeless, their towering shadows stretching in twisted shapes across the land.

37-5 Conservation Area 368

She leaves her hands in plain view—intricate mechanical constructs of interlocking gears and components that are unmistakably artificial.

37-6 The Web Weaver

With a soft, whirring rustle, a mechanical spider dances in the corner, its eight legs weaving an intricate web in the air.

37-7 Uncertainty

In the shadows cast by sunlight, countless similar tragedies unfold unseen.

37-8 Among the Mountains

The mineral crystals in the rock walls pulse with halos of unseen light, while Hetero-Creatures—or perhaps something else entirely—stir and rustle in the depths of their shadowy nest.

37-9 Dazed Nightmare

A deep, thunder-like rumbling echoes through the rocky cavern.

37-10 The Veil Between

Her gaze stretches across the conservation area, where a thick mist shrouds the layered mountains, dissolving the very horizon into a seamless, muted grey.

37-11 Shrouded in Darkness

I'll give her everything—anything she could ever want—as long as she desires it and I can get it for her.

37-12 Liv's Choice

"If you know the future is paved with struggles and pain... will you still walk toward it?"

37-13 Vision Interference

Everything around you peels away like faded wallpaper, as various scenes flicker into being like rapidly changing stage sets from Golden Age films.

37-14 "Illusion"

Ethereal and ghost-like, they drift forth, their dresses rippling like water and shimmering with a pale, phosphorescent glow.

37-15 One Day

I won't mourn for you, because this is just a brief parting.

37-16 Family

The world begins with a lingering sigh.

37-17 Frozen Time

She takes your hands in hers, presses them gently against her cheek, and places a soft kiss upon them.

37-18 A Long Dream

Your field of vision suddenly lurches skyward. This unbearably long "dream" grinds on, unbroken by your "unconscious" state.

37-19 Closing the Net

Clouds part to reveal the sun as that seed begins to sprout.

37-20 When the Dream Ends

Love spins itself into a cocoon, holding you securely within. In her arms, she cradles her entire world.

37-21 The Lab

The "Model III-0007-Psychiatrist Generation III" sits silently behind the desk. Then, without any human activation, it slowly opens its eyes.

37-22 Don't Look Back

Once again, with her own hands, she has set her child adrift on an uncertain future.

37-23 Cocoon of Love

She wove an enormous, intricate web to wrap the child inside it... and in doing so, became trapped herself.

37-24 "Birth"

What does she want with Liv's M.I.N.D.? Why exactly... was she created?

37-25 Tree of Life

He still remembers that dark and damp Golden Age.