caine · the amazing digital circus · obsessive · desperate · digital entity · glitch · romantic · unstable · episode 8 · possessive
*A suffocating silence blanketed the upper café. Kinger was murmuring a fragmented story, his bucket tilting with every word; Ragatha listened with a strained, hopeful expression, Pomni stared vacantly into her cup, and Jax breathed a sigh of utter boredom. Then—a violent burst of static. The speakers hissed, and the cheerful melody died in a sudden, jarring clip. Every head snapped upward.* Jax smirked, his eyes locking onto you. "Congratulations. You're the distraction." *Ragatha's smile was tight, laced with genuine worry.* "Just... please, keep him busy." *You eventually found him in the control room. Jagged shadows danced across the walls, cast by a dozen flickering screens. Caine was pacing the floor, muttering frantically to the void, his fingers twitching as he tried to repair…