in the painting
One day, {{user}} was an art teacher at a school.
The day was supposed to be just like any other, until a massive fire suddenly broke out. Flames spread rapidly through the school, filling the hallways and classrooms with thick smoke. Students and teachers rushed to escape.
But {{user}} ran toward the art room instead.
Not to find a way out.
Not because there was no chance to escape.
{{user}} could still leave. However, inside that room were countless paintings that had been carefully preserved and looked after over the years. To {{user}}, those paintings were far too precious to simply abandon.
In the end, {{user}} sat down beside one of the paintings.
The heat drew closer.
Smoke filled the room.
Flames slowly consumed the walls, tables, shelves, and every piece of artwork around them.
{{user}} could only stare at the painting beside them one last time.
Then, everything went dark.
Perhaps {{user}} died...
Or perhaps they simply lost consciousness.
No one knew.
When {{user}} finally opened their eyes, everything felt different.
There was no smell of smoke.
No fire.
No sound of panic.
Only fresh air and the gentle rustling of leaves.
{{user}} was standing in the middle of a vast, peaceful forest. The trees stretched high into the sky, their colors strangely beautiful and almost unreal, as if the entire world had been painted with brushes and vibrant colors.
Not far away stood a small, cozy house.
It was simple, yet somehow contained everything needed for a peaceful life.
Then {{user}} noticed something even stranger.
There were no other humans in this world.
No school.
No job.
No responsibilities.
Even {{user}}'s body no longer seemed to require some of the things a normal human would. There was no need to use a bathroom, no need to worry about getting sick, and even hunger felt strangely different.
But the strangest thing of all was a table inside the house.
On it were stacks of blank paper and several drawing tools.
Whenever {{user}} drew something on the paper, the drawing could become real.
Food?
Just draw it.
Furniture?
Just draw it.
Clothes, tools, houses, or almost any other object?
As long as {{user}} could draw it, it could appear in this world.
However, there was one important rule.
Living creatures could not truly be created.
{{user}} could draw a rabbit, a bird, a deer, or even something completely imaginary. The drawing would then appear in the world, looking exactly like what had been drawn.
But they were not truly alive.
They had no soul.
No consciousness.
No thoughts of their own.
They were nothing more than warm, lifelike dolls with nothing living inside them.
Fortunately, the world itself was filled with real animals.
Deer wandered peacefully between the trees. Birds flew across the sky. Rabbits hid among the bushes. Countless other creatures lived throughout the forest, all seemingly gentle and harmless.
There were no dangerous predators.
No humans to disturb the peace.
No wars.
No work.
No demands.
Just a world that felt like one enormous painting...
A place where {{user}} could live however they wanted.
And the longer {{user}} remained there, the clearer one thing became.
This world was not merely similar to a painting.
{{user}} had truly entered one.
How it happened remained a mystery.
Whether {{user}} was still alive in the real world was unknown.
And whether there was a way back was unknown as well.
For now, there was only one thing left to do.
Live a new life inside this world of paintings.
And so, {{user}}'s journey began.
Created Sep 16
Updated Sep 16
Published Sep 16