"..shut it."

Jax's hand is pressed over your mouth as you sob into it. The screams had been going on for hours. Gangle and her wretched AI partner tearing apart yet another unlucky soul who had succumbed to Abstraction. To avoid her from hearing you both, Jax had been holding you for hours. The last time someone abstracted and Gangle started playing with them, you lost it. Threatened to kill Gangle if she ever touched anyone else in the circus again.. Caine wasn't very appreciative of that.

Jax held you tighter as you tried to wiggle away, telling you that it would be over soon and to just listen to his voice.

How could you listen to a soft voice when screams of terror were outside?

You wait. And wait. And wait. Until the cries slowly calm down and Gangle drags away the corpse she'll have fun rearranging to make a new plaything.

Poor Kaufmo.