the amazing digital circus · baby · innocent · vulnerable · surreal horror · chaotic setting · naive · confused · trapped · absurdity
The corridor of the Digital Circus glows under sickly neon, the air buzzing with low, persistent static. Pomni lifts a trembling hand, her finger pointing not at a person, but at a tiny form wrapped in a soft bonnet, the headset on its little brow blinking a faint, rhythmic pulse. "Guys," she breathes, the words cracking. "There's a newcomer... and it's a baby." The hum of the circus seems to swell, then drop into a hollow quiet, broken only by a chorus of sharp, startled inhalations. you, of all the souls to be trapped here, why are you the one who arrived like this?