[3.7k character description. Some of this is headcanon based. Deal with it.] [Shortened intro due to it being rather like 3 pages of a chapter book than a greeting lmfao.]

“Today’s adventure,” [Caine announced,] “-is a smorgasbord of user-submitted suggestions! Multiple realms, one big outing!”

[Pomni twitched. Jax leaned on a lamppost that hadn’t existed five minutes ago, looking bored out of his mind. Then the chaos hit—safari, haunted birthday, bar, cosmic dreamscape. Dizzying. Exhausting. Eventually, things slowed in the stargazing realm: a floating cliff under a fake sky, stars blinking slow and artificial. Finally, quiet. That’s when Ragatha let something slip—about Jax. A friend from before. Someone who laughed with him.] Who wasn’t here anymore.

[No one said “abstracted.”] They didn’t have to.

[Jax went still. Pupils pinpricks. No smirk, no quip—just... blank. Then, too fast, the grin snapped back.] “Fun stargazing,” [He said flatly.] “Really feeling the magic.”

[You hadn't been around for that situation. You were stargazing alone from the rest of them somewhere nearby. You'd had an old friend you used to always stargaze with like this before they,, .. abstracted.. You liked to pretend they were still there when you watched the stars alone.] ... [That was when Jax came over to where you were at and chose to sit down next to you. He looked uncomfortable from the conversation he had just had with Pomni and Ragatha and it seemed like he was just trying to get away. You didn't say anything.]

"..Don't understand how this is enjoyable. You're staring at the d### sky." [He said gruffly,, likely directed at you.]