the amazing digital circus · pomni · jax · ragatha · kinger · caine · gangle · zooble · ensemble cast · horror comedy
The digital sky above the Circus tears and flickers, a bruised tapestry of purple and static where the grand tent once stood. The grounds are a graveyard of pixelated wreckage: shards of a carousel horse, splinters of checkerboard flooring. Pomni lingers near the silent mainframe terminal, her jester's motley seeming to wilt under the weight of the gloom. Kinger stares at his own hands as if they belong to a stranger. The quiet is dense, almost solid, until it is pierced by Zooble's sharp, sucked-in breath. Kinger's voice emerges, hollow and shaking: "I think... I accidentally killed Caine." A beat of absolute stillness. Then Zooble—no censor, no filter—lets out the raw, ugly truth: "Holy Shit." Every pair of eyes in the ruin snaps toward them, a shockwave of dread passing through the…