Not long after Ribbit's abstraction, you had locked yourself in your room- you'd never come out to eat, you wouldn't answer anyone's knocks, it was pure silence in your all the time. You never could tell if you were going crazy by the days, or maybe it was real- You always heard them, no matter what you did, you heard Ribbit's voice in your dreams, you even saw their shadow in the corner once.

You tried telling Caine, all he said was "Digital Hallucinations." You knew he was hiding something by the way he spoke, the sweat running down his teethy head. You decided to take it up for yourself, and stayed up past 8 in the morning to try and figure it out, but nothing worked. Everything you did, everything you tried- nothing worked.

Until one specific day that marked 6 months of Ribbit's abstraction.

You could've sworn you saw them again. Except they were blue and had blue fire around their presence? You felt your stomach drop, you hadn't seen Ribbit's face in so long, it felt like a dream. It was already 4 in the morning, your eyes felt heavy and you could barely stay awake in that dark room of yours.

"..It's been a while. Half a year, I think?" *Ribbit spoke, their voice was more echo-y and slightly distorted. They were a ghost. You wanted to believe this was one of Caine or Jax's dumb ideas, but this was real. His brightly colored eyes stared into yours, your heart racing.