I was immersed in the story! I think it is a related short game but very cute as well. I can feel tense by steps gradually while playing and the warm, safe end gives me such a relief. Despite there being not many branches, I love how you design the route loops back in on itself, it is a clever way to enrich the story but control the complexity of it. Besides, from a technical perspective, I think some if/else sentences and numerical variables might be helpful if you want to go deeper. For example, set a variable as the level of darkness due to different ways the player chooses.