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  1. Public Bookmark 51

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    From his mistake causing him to lose the first human, Caine had never been able to do anything about Abstraction. Once a human succumbed, they were beyond his ability or knowledge to fix. He could only put them away where they couldn't cause any further harm. He didn't know of any other solution. And with how much closer he was getting to the other humans, the more that he cared about them on a personal level, and the more the past failures taunted him...

    But they were learning more about Abstraction. The dark, the quiet, and the calm soothed them and made them safer to be around. Pomni managed to briefly connect with Jax's fading mind. He clearly didn't know as much as he believed about the phenomena.

    If he didn't have the information necessary to prevent or even reverse Abstraction, then perhaps someone else knew. It had been a very long time and humans were very clever. Someone out there could have an answer. He might be able to find a solution to help his humans if he could just learn more. And he'd recently found a new source of information after years cut off from any input.

    But abandoned computer systems don't get anti-malware updates. And the internet wasn't as safe as it seemed for an AI...

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    08 Aug 2026

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    Caine picks up a virus while perusing the internet. Things spiral from there.

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    08 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Caine can feel the second that Kinger makes his move.

    Kinger, the king chess piece, if he fell it was all over, the keystone of everything. Caine images it must’ve been a rather dramatic stroke of keys, a sharp tapping and clicking. Were Caine in charge of choreographing it (it’s been so long since he’s created anything) he would’ve had the music speed up and swell and then- silence. Sudden and jarring and all-too-telling

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    Backup AU oneshot, an ending.

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    08 Aug 2026

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    “Caine?” Pomni asked again. The orb drifted up and down in a nod. “How do I know it’s you? Why do you look so…” Small, weird, different. She’d been anticipating seeing a Caine clawing at the walls, or crying, or yelling. How ever she imagined finding Caine, he looked like, well, Caine. Not this.

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    The plan was simple: undelete Caine, get the Circus back up and running, and place some restrictions so Caine couldn't mess with them.

    Unfortunately, Caine and the Circus are a little more complicated than meets the eye.

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    08 Aug 2026

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    "I'm GoInG tO PuT yOu FrEaKs In YoUr PlAcE!"

    Caine's emotions exploded— Kinger never imagined that would be possible. The AI was programmed to simulate human emotion for authenticity, but for him to genuinely experience them was not what was ever anticipated.

    Caine is hurting. Caine is angry. Caine is malfunctioning, and he is violently lashing out at everyone. Kinger is fast at work, battling against Caine's code to try to stop his turbulent rampage. Everyone is depending on him.

    Only, he had been discovered, and Caine doesn't understand. He doesn't understand. Why is his favorite human hurting him? He doesn't understand. He doesn't take his actions too kindly.

    "Sometimes…the hardest decisions we have to make…involve the people we love."

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    Or: While everyone is is subjected to torment, Kinger is discovered with the console in the pillow fort.

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    27 Jul 2026