I see Jaz starting to get stressed, so I stand up and reach to open her door. However, she stands up and sweeps me in her arms, so we kiss again.Â
But thatâs when I hear it.Â
A black spiky creature covered in neon eyes runs out of a door they just pushed down. It reminds me of a figure on my first day here. Kaufmo. Someone abstracted.
My eyes drop to the door to see if I can find the face, and my heart falls to the bottom of my feet.
The door belongs to RagathaâŚ
I reach out for the abstracted version of her, but Jaz is already running 30 miles per hour, like a chicken that just got its head cut off.
I wanted to see if I could help Ragatha calm down and unabstract⌠but you donât come back from abstraction. You stay there, trapped in a circus with your consciousness unable to control its own body. Youâre stuck like that⌠forever.
I tug on Jazâs arm for her to put me down. Not to go towards Ragatha, but to go a separate way and find Caine.
Jaz looks at me and shakes my head. âNo, Pomni. Iâm not putting you down right now! Not until weâre out of the hallway because itâs chasing us!âÂ
I look behind Jazâs head and see if abstracted Ragatha was chasing us. And indeed, she was, and she was catching up fast.
âRUN MOTHERF[SQUEEK]ER! RUN!â I scream as I grip tightly onto Jaz.
âIâM GOING AS FAST AS I CAN!â She yells back, as dodges a flying table.
As the abstracted Ragatha and the staircase downstairs gets closer, Jaz puts me on her shoulders.
I, for some stupid reason, checked to see where the abstracted creature was.Â
I tense up. She was so close that my nose, if I had one, would touch her.
Then suddenly, the creature stops.
âHOLD ON!!â Jaz yells over my screams. I collapse on her and grasp her head, but try to make sure Iâm not covering her eyes.
Jaz jumps and slides down the railing of the staircase, just as the abstracted creature lands, right where we just were.
The creature hisses at the sight of us escaping, then walks the other way.
We pant and Jaz sets me down, where we start running around calling for Caine.
We both run around for hours, but to no avail.Â
Zooble and Gangle open the meadow door and walk out, where Jaz and I both rush to.Â
âHAVE! YOU! SEEN! CAINE?!?â Jaz screams at them.
âWhy?â Snarks Zooble.
âB-BECAUSE!! B-BECAUSE RAGATHA!!!â Jaz pants.
âBecause Ragatha what?â Says Gangle.
âRAGATHA ABSTRACTED!â I scream.
They both look at us in shock, and then the roof cracks, drywall landing on our head.
And down falls Ragatha, right in between of the crowd.
Gangle and Zooble rush back into the meadow room while Jaz and I run away, but thereâs no reason to. Ragatha pounces right on us and pins us down.Â
I feel the glitching consume me as I yell out with the remaining breath I have, âCAINE! HELP US!â
Caine appears next to us. âWhat do you need help with my little tyrant T-Rex teethers?â
âHelp⌠usâŚâ whispers Jaz.
âOh!â Caine exclaimed as he snapped his fingers. Ragatha floats up into the sky, falls into a hole, and Jazâs and my glitches disappear.
Caine floats away as Jaz and I continue to lay on the floor, embarrassed and exhausted.