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  1. Rec 2

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    Somebody likes to play music outside the tent. It sounds like it’s coming from a small radio. Sometimes someone sings along. Sometimes the song is familiar. Most of the time, though, it’s just another sound muffled by the weight of blankets. It’s… Kind of nice to have something to listen to other than a heartbeat.


    On the other side of abstraction, Jax finds peace.

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    22 Jul 2026

  2. Rec 80

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    To abstract, you have to completely surrender. To de-abstract, you need to completely want to live again and believe in yourself. Ribbit de-abstracts because they don't want to be alone. Jax de-abstracts out of spite.

    This fucking asshole is going to have to be dragged out of the closet kicking and screaming. Hell will freeze over first. It takes more than the length of a Nanowrimo.

    Also: they all go to space, play Doom (1993), and get gocks. Lots of Maid Jax stuff if you're into that, ya freaks.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    A week.

    That's how long it takes to delete Abel. It's... Surprisingly easy, with the AI barely having a grasp on the circus code, it doesn't take much.

    ...

     

    A week, is all it takes for him to break Caine.

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    19 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 54

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    "Jax?" Pomni asks, eyes wide in alarm. She sounds like someone would when talking to a cornered animal, and it doesn't make her feel any better about the situation.

    "I- I don't—" her voice crackles like static. One of her hands remain on the side of her face, and then she moves to cover her eyes, trembling. "I don't know what's- what's happening—"

    Pomni's quiet for a moment. "What do you remember?"

    "I don't know—"

    She cuts herself off with a disbelieving laugh. She doesn't know. It's all so overwhelming she can't piece it together. The name Pomni's using for her doesn't feel real, even though there's a part of her saying that it is. Nothing feels real.

    How did she end up here? What happened? What year is it? Wasn't she on the street? Didn't she come here because—

    "I don't know," she cries, louder. "I don't know who I am! I don't know!"

    (or: two months after her abstraction, jax reawakens, and she isn't the same.)

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    19 Jul 2026

  5. Rec 24

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    "I'm saying this for a reason," Zooble hisses. "I'm going to ask a question that's probably a little too much, and you're probably going to get weird about it. I'm telling you that if it's gonna make you freak out, I can save it."

    Jax peers out at them. There's something intense swimming in their eyes, but they look like they're trying to bury it. She swallows. Her mouth feels dry.

    "Freaky thing to hear," she mumbles, suspicious, "but go on."

    Zooble sighs. "Are you and Pomni, like— a thing, now?"

    Jax feels her face go red hot.

    "Um."

    (or: jax and zooble debrief.)

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    18 Jul 2026