The 3 AM Trial

Author: Elyanor

When Ava is selected as a player in Starry Night, she is given no guidance, only the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment. At first, each level appears as a fragment of reality, familiar and almost harmless, a classroom filled with students, a dormitory governed by strict rules, before revealing its quiet violence. As the game unfolds, Ava learns that the most dangerous part is not the ghosts or the rules, but the cruelty of humans and the cost of what they are willing to sacrifice. On the verge of insanity, she hears a familiar voice screaming a name that stirs something deep within her. As her grip on reality begins to unravel, Ava uncovers what distorted her world and who sent her into the game, only to discover that everything she endured stemmed from a single misunderstanding of what happened on a random night at 3 a.m.