Stay in the moment
A sentence, a pause, another exchange. Ordinary conversation stays in the same time of day.
Another world · Herbs · A slow-growing romance
Find a place of your own. Let a relationship grow in its own time.
You awaken in Lorea with an unfamiliar sensitivity to magic. The Royal Herb Institute gives its new apprentice a room, a workbench and a first letter. Seasonal herb work and four very different people turn this strange place into a life of your own.
Open the first letterEach story turn costs 1 action point. Profiles, received letters and reloading your save are free.
A sentence, a pause, another exchange. Ordinary conversation stays in the same time of day.
Affinity and trust grow separately. Invitations, shared feelings and becoming a couple each need an explicit choice. Friendship is a complete path too.
Shared moments leave private letters each season. Reading costs no action points; a reply is a story turn.
30 · Royal patrol knight
A man of few words who remembers yours.
Patrol routes, an umbrella in the rain, time set aside for you. He respects your judgement before learning to speak of his own feelings.
34 · Herb and magic researcher
He cares for everyone, but rarely asks for care.
His notebooks are full of plants, rarely himself. Working side by side, he learns to share fatigue and anticipation.
28 · Rune scholar
Quick with a joke, slower with his heart.
He makes runes work perfectly, yet struggles to say he cares. Behind the banter is an awkwardness he chooses to let you see.
29 · Travelling herb merchant
He has been everywhere. Now he learns to say, “I’ll return.”
Travel stories come easily. What brings him closer is a date, and the sight of him keeping it at the garden gate.