[TADC] 📜🎪 M A K I N G ◦ A N ◦ N P C ! - Act 5

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⊹˚₊·‧Chapter 5: Feel

“Is everything alright??” 

Ragatha quickly appeased Pomni, “Yes, yes, sorry. All good. Just… a particularly strong kick.”

Pomni felt like she was staggering, even though she was lying in bed. She could feel the world slightly tilting.

Ragatha must’ve noticed something, because she quickly added, “Ah, I’m sorry. I… I actually didn’t want to tell you about this. I don’t want things to get even more emotionally… overwhelming for you.”

“Was… was it moving the whole time…?” Pomni asked with a shallow breath.

Ragatha didn’t answer at first. Then she slowly nodded.

“S-since.. since I came in……..?”

Ragatha shook her head. She hesitated, but eventually revealed, “since the very first moment. That’s… that’s how I knew.”

Pomni gasped and sat up. For some reason, this information rattled her.

“But… but that’s impossible.”

“We’re in a virtual world, Pomni,” Ragatha said with a slightly crooked smile. “I don’t think pregnancies play by the same rules here.”

So… Ragatha truly had been alone with this from the very first moment? She had sat with them in the lounge, listening to everyone's theories of what the wheel could mean, while feeling something inside her the whole time? Now that Pomni thought about it, she remembered that Ragatha had been rather silent and absent. Oh god… That poor woman. And Pomni had nothing better to do than to go on adventures, be a dumb idiot half of the time, and have a tantrum the moment she found out about it.

“Hey, wow, calm down,” she heard Ragatha say worriedly and felt her hand on her shoulder. 

Only now did she notice that she had started hyperventilating.

“Why does it get to you so much, Pomni…? Are you able to tell me?”

Pomni shook her head. She was absolutely not able to tell Ragatha, because she didn’t understand any of it herself.

“Shh, it’s okay. It’s okay. I’m okay. And you are, too.”

Ragatha’s voice sounded so reassuring, so calm, so settled…

“Would you… would you like to feel it?”

Pomni took a deep breath, her hyperventilation slowing down. Then she gulped. Then she nodded.

Ragatha gave her the most gentle smile, then carefully grabbed both of Pomni’s hands, guiding them under the blanket and putting them on her swollen abdomen.

It made Pomni gasp. She was so much bigger than she looked. Her belly so much firmer than the rest of her plush body. So perfectly round, too… Ragatha guided Pomni’s hands to certain spots, in a way that made the weight and shape even more obvious. It felt as if there was a firm water balloon under a soft layer of cotton filling. Not completely like how a real pregnant belly would feel, but rather enticing nevertheless. 

Eventually, Pomni's hands reached a spot where there was… something. A hand, or an arm, or a leg maybe, pushing slightly outward.

“Oh—oh———oh my god,” was all Pomni could muster, her heart pounding like crazy, her cheeks burning red hot, and her world starting to spin again. Something inside her wanted to pull her hands away, but something greater desperately wanted her to feel Ragatha up even closer. “There… t-there really is… something…..”

Ragatha didn’t comment on that. Instead, she just watched Pomni. Curious. Careful.

“W-wow… I… I can’t believe it, that feels… oh god, it feels so real.”

Ragatha still didn’t say anything, but she nodded slightly.

Pomni felt the NPC entity pushing inside one of her hands. It was so strong, it must’ve been at least a little painful to Ragatha. But looking at her, she didn’t seem bothered. On the contrary… the curious look in her eye, the flushed cheeks, the way her mouth seemed slightly parted… Was she… was she enjoying this?

“You… you felt this the whole time…?” Pomni asked again, eventually.

Ragatha nodded. 

“Not… not as strong, but … yeah.”

She slowly let go of Pomni’s hands. Pomni left them there. It made Ragatha sigh.

“Do… do you want to know another secret..?” Ragatha asked, almost whispering.

Did she? Oh god, she did. A lot. This whole secret thing became scarily exciting quickly. Or maybe rather… excitingly scary.

“It’s… it’s stronger when you’re close.”

Something inside Pomni's head clicked. Almost like a popping sensation, right behind her face. What… what was that?

“Oh—— ohmygosh, Pomni!” Ragatha shouted, alarmed.

“Wh… what”

“You’re…. you’re bleeding!”

Pomni lifted her hand to touch her face. Then looked at it. Red, poorly rendered stains on her blue glove.

She was having a nosebleed. Without a nose.

“I’m sorry!!” She shouted now, too, pushing both of her hands on her face, where she assumed the blood was coming out, not knowing exactly what she was apologizing for.

“Are you okay??” Ragatha inquired, getting more nervous, now sitting up, too.

Pomni nodded frantically. “It’s ok, it’s ok—I think it’s just a———”

A cartoonish caricature of overexaggerated feelings, she wanted to say. But that was embarrassingly revealing. Also not true, probably. She was just glitching, like she sometimes did when stuff was… 

Nevermind.

“It’s okay,” she instead said a third time and felt how the flow slowly vanished, together with the red polygons on the bed.

It really was more of an emote than an actuality, apparently.

Ragatha stared at her. Following that, she started to chuckle at first, which eventually turned into a laugh.

Pomni looked at her, confused.

“No… hahaha, no offense, Pomni, but your reactions sometimes…”

“Y-yes…?” Pomni muffled into her hands, still keeping them on her face until she was sure the flow had stopped completely.

Ragatha laughed louder, cheerfully. It really sounded beautiful. For her, being a clown didn’t feel too bad.

“Let’s just say, haha, that you… that you aren’t too ladylike, sometimes.” Ragatha explained, while wiping a tear out of her eye.

“H-hey—”

“Nono,” she quickly countered, “that’s good. That’s a good thing. I like that about you. A lot. You feel… genderless, sometimes, if that makes sense. Or like you really don’t care about any gender conventions, at all. That’s inspiring. It’s fun, too. Thank you for being like that.”

Pomni slowly lowered her hands, while she felt her heart pounding again.
The way Ragatha was putting it… it sounded nice.

“You’re welcome,” she then said with a crooked grin.

Thankfully, Ragatha didn’t interrogate her any further about the nosebleeding and instead said, “We should try to catch at least some sleep now, don’t you think…? We… we can talk about more tomorrow or some other time.”

Pomni agreed by nodding. “You’re right.”

“And”, Ragatha continued, and Pomni thought she could hear the hint of teasing in her voice, “I might have more secrets to share in the future.”

Pomni was thankful for the lack of a major lightsource; hopefully Ragatha couldn’t see how much she was blushing again.

“R-right…” Pomni stuttered, “That sounds…. exciting.”

And with that, they both tried to sleep. However, it took them over an hour to actually fall asleep.

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