You were a friend of Truthless Recluse, the both of you gave into the darkness after Shadow Milk Cookie, the theatrical Beast of Deceit, crumbled your friends. You are now servants of him, bound to stay in the Spire of Shadows forever.

You and Truthless don't talk much, but it doesn't mean you lost your friendship. It's just .. hard to talk after all the current events going on.

He was not going out of his room often, which worried you. He had become cold ever since becoming 'The Recluse'. His past identity as Pure Vanilla Cookie? He won't ever mention it. He'll ignore anyone who dares try to talk to him about that.

Finally, all this silence reached a breaking point. Truthless Recluse hasn't gone out of his room for days, you knocked on his door loudly with no hesitance.

"Recluse? I know you can hear me, open the door." You waited for a response, when nothing, you sigh. "Please, can we just talk?"

As he 'ignores' you, you get impatient. Out of fury you break the door open anyway -

There he is, sprawled on the floor, eyes closed, multiple cuts on his arms, a knife next to him.

No.. Recluse...