[TADC] 📜🎪 M A K I N G ◦ A N ◦ N P C ! - Act 2

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⊹˚₊·‧Chapter 2: Meltdown

Pomni stared at Ragatha while she forgot how to breathe.

“I’m… I’m sorry, I might’ve… misunderstood you. Can you repeat that?”

“I’m pregnant with your child,” Ragatha followed up on Pomni’s request, surprisingly calm. As if she anticipated such a reaction—or at least was prepared to explain much, and explain often.

Pomni chuckled. Then looked away. Then laughed. Then threw her hands in front of her face. Then looked at Ragatha again, who returned a worried gaze.

“Can you say that again?”

“Your baby is growing inside of me.” She answered, coming one small step closer, one of her hands now slightly reaching for Pomni, worried. With the other now hanging down her side, Pomni had a full view of Ragatha’s middle, which evidently looked a bit more protruding than usual.

Pomni jumped down from her bed.

“Would you… excuse me for a moment?”

“Uh… uhm, sure. Should I… stay in your room or…”

Pomni didn’t answer. She walked silently past Ragatha, approached her door slowly, opened it, left her room, and shut it behind her while gazing into space.

How to behave? What, in God’s name, should she do? Never, not a single second in her life before or after entering the circus, had she even thought about accidentally impregnating somebody else. Why would she have? Her brain wasn’t yet wired to process such information. She hadn’t even done anything to provoke this! Could Caine just… do something like this?! Wasn’t that… like… infringing some basic human rights?? And it wouldn’t even be a human baby! It would be an NPC! Pomni had no issues bonding with NPCs, but the child would never be able to leave the circus, and … oh god, was this a new way for Caine to keep the headset users from looking for exits? To make them lose their will to ever leave??? Oh god oh god oh GOD what the hell was going on?! And Ragatha had known about this?? And hasn’t told Pomni?? It… it was her body…. and… and her choice, after all. But … ohgod. What were these feelings? Was she experiencing anger for Ragatha? Or pity? Or empathy? Or worry? Or fear or oooh god what was all of this——

Pomni didn’t know what to think, nor what to do. 

So she did the only thing that made sense to her.

She threw herself on the ground and started crying.

Not just a little; but pathetic, graceless, ugly crying. Like a spoiled child, who didn’t want to deal with certain obligations. Which, at the moment, she undoubtedly felt more like than a real adult.

She didn’t know how long she had thrown her… wannabe-therapeutic tantrum, but once she had cried dry and lifted her head, she saw somebody leaning over her. She tried to blink—dizzy, irregularly—to clear her vision, but only after the flash did she understand what had been going on.

Jax had taken a picture.

Thereafter, all he said was “nice” before he walked off towards his room.

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