EEstimated read: about 1 hr 15 mininteractive fictionchildren's fiction1 endings
Ten-year-old Owen lives mostly with Mom and visits Dad at a new apartment forty-five minutes away. While both parents concentrate on rebuilding their separate lives, Owen quietly carries missed promises, adult messages, and a frightening suspicion that the divorce was somehow his fault. In a vivid dream world between two distant houses, a lantern-bearing Fox and a nest-building Bird help Owen find the words to tell the truth: a child can love two parents, live in two homes, and still remain entirely whole.
A typical path is about 11,166 words. The book’s rough reading-time estimate is 1 hr 15 min. Your pace, pauses, rereading and time spent on choices can make your visit longer. This is not a time limit or a measure of your progress.
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Rating reasons
Divorce and parental separationMild parental conflictA missed visit and feelings of abandonmentChildhood guilt, anger, and sadnessMildly unsettling dream imagery
What to expect
EDivorce and changing custody arrangementsParental conflictA parent missing a promised visitFeelings of abandonment and self-blameEmotionally intense dream sequences
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