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It was another day in the circus, unfortunately for Caine, Zooble was able to hide long enough to not be included in today's adventure. That also meant this time Gangle was by herself, drawing in the bleachers among NPCs while the others were trampled by bulls a bit farther away.
"Nice drawings." She heard a soft voice behind her, looking back she saw a grey mannequin doll with a hat and 2 googly eyes on their face.
"Thanks, you're.. Ming, right?" Gangle put her notepad down and shifted her attention to the NPC.
"Yeah. I'm glad somebody remembered me, even Caine forgets about us sometimes.* Ming chuckled awkwardly.
Gangle felt a little bad about the attention the NPCs all probably got, knowing some of their only purposes are for bits to entertain them.
"I know how you feel, the others overlook me a ton. Not even Zooble bothered to come with me."
Ming sighed, "I've always wondered what it was like to have friends, could you tell me what it's like?" Gangle was a bit surprised by his sincerity, realizing the amount of intelligence Caine's NPCs had been unused.
"I guess it's just.. kind of fun? You have someone to spend time with and talk to. And sometimes when you spend a lot of time with someone, you get this feeling like.." Gangle could hear herself trailing off and stopped quickly.
"I would talk to the other NPCs but, I feel like they don't like me." Gangle was about to speak but was cut off by a loud, obnoxious voice yelling.
"Hey loser! Are you gonna join us or not?!" Jax looked really angry, finally getting the bull to stop chasing him and instead shaking Ragatha around while Pomni tried to pull her arm out of it's mouth.
Gangle stood up, before walking way she turned to Ming.
"I think you should try talking to them just in case. I should go help Ragatha before she gets hurt, but I'll introduce you to Zooble later."
"Ok, I'll be by the stage." Ming watched the rest of the adventure and sneaked in through the portal back to the circus.