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The lore for that is sprinkled around right now.

But with the clues we have now, we can only really assume that whatever happened to Dess changed the entire Dreemur family and with Kris in particular, he stopped being himself(perhaps due to SOUL experiments?) and stopped really communicating with Noelle. Which is why when Kris speaks to her specifically in Ch4 on Snowgrave she starts speaking lile she is quite touched because she can tell its actually her childhoodfriend Kris is reaching out to her after years of leaving her alone and that that lame cuckbrain Berdley or other dull people.