So, I've been writing a funnybunny fanfic, here's an excerpt from its fifth chapter :)
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Pomni groaned and let her face fall into her hands in defeat.
There was shuffling on the couch and Jax’s voice sounded closer to her, “What kind of fucked up nightmare did you have to cause this?”
Pomni let out a humorless chuckle but was too tired to stop herself from responding, “I dreamt I was back in the Circus, Caine was there and…it just felt too real.”
“What do you mean ‘too real’?”
“I mean that my dream felt exactly like being in the Circus again, like we had never escaped. And now I can’t help but feel like this house and everything else might just be a very realistic adventure that Caine has forced us into! I mean, how do we really know that we escaped?!"
Pomni’s words were rushed and angry and panicked as she spoke. Her mind just couldn’t break out of this cycle, she would remember her awful nightmare, question her reality, and fruitlessly search for a way to prove to herself that this was real. That she was real.
Jax matter of factly said, “We can curse.”
“Fuck, shit, bitch, cunt.” Jax used the string of swears clearly trying to show Pomni that she was acting crazy. But Pomni knew she wasn’t totally being insane.
“Caine said ass once, when he made that stupid Ming joke, remember! What if he is just able to turn off the censor on swears and we just didn’t know.”
Pomni looked at Jax sharply, more to emphasize her point but she saw him really consider her words.
“Ok, so swearing won’t prove that we aren’t in the Circus anymore. But there are plenty of other things we can do now that we couldn’t do in Caine’s fucked up digital playground.” Jax started listing things while counting on his fingers. “We can actually sleep, well at least when nightmares don’t haunt us. We can eat, and the flavors of our meals are too good to be Caine’s design. I would also like to add that we have been here for almost three days and haven’t seen Disappearing Guy once. If this was Caine’s adventure, that annoying fuck would have shown up twice by now.”
Jax looked really pleased with his list, like he had cracked a puzzle that Pomni just couldn’t solve. He was definitely stroking his own ego right now.
Pomni still felt a sick sensation in her stomach, while Jax’s words made sense, her mind and body would not trust this reality simply based on words.
“Ugh Pomni!” Jax apparently could read her unconvinced face like a book. “Do I need to remind you that you were able to satisfy your perverted sexual needs?”
“Christ Jax! I am not a pervert, it’s normal to masturbate!” This broke Pomni’s stupor as she got up in arms over this topic again.
“Exactly! It's normal for real people in the real world to masturbate, Caine wouldn’t allow that in the Circus at all.” Jax talked slowly and emphasized certain words as if that would help the information get through her thick skull.
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