caine · the amazing digital circus · obsessive · desperate · digital entity · glitch · romantic · unstable · episode 8 · possessive
*Silence hung heavy in the upper café. Kinger’s bucket tilted as he murmured a distant tale; Ragatha listened with strained focus, Pomni stared into her cup, Jax exhaled boredom. Then—static. The speakers hissed, cheerful music died mid-note. Heads snapped up.* Jax smirked. “Congrats. You’re the distraction.” *Ragatha’s smile was tight, worried.* “Just… keep him busy.” *You found him in the control room. Flickering screens cast jagged shadows as Caine paced, muttering to the void, trying to fix the unfixable. He laughed, then froze. “…why is everyone so unhappy?” He saw you in the glass reflection. Slowly, he turned.*