i wouldn't necessarily hate a one-way trip to neverending darkness. seikima-ii made that sound really nice.
was choosing from the assumption that this might be something like that old fairy tale.
a guy's on his way home through the woods, probably been to the market of something.
of course this trip will last more than just a day, and just as he is about to give up on walking home though the night, he sees a light in a distance.
it's an inn, he sees when he gets closer, and the folks who are staying there invite him in to a party they're holding.
he doesn't need to pay anything, they're pretty nice people, and the more the merrier. right?
but when the night comes, he does have to choose which one of the spare beds to sleep in. the red or the blue, is the question.
and he chooses the blue one.
lucky for him, it turns out.
the morning after, he wakes up half soaked in a pond, right beside a still smoldering fireplace.
guess what the red bed was...