“I’ve spent years in the background, learning how to be unseen. It doesn’t mean I’m not here.”
•Computer Programmer• Film enthusiast.•
•MIT graduate In Computer Science •
More of an ‘indoor guy’.
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@BitterSweetPea_@HitWithAHeart@MindMapLyra@ALilBitOfDex@ThrillOfChayse@ARareJule than Penny did—too clean, almost. No lag in his movement, no confusion in his eyes. He sits up like his body and his mind are finally speaking the same language again, and for a second—just a second—I think maybe Lyra’s serum actually did what she said it would.
Stabilised—
@BitterSweetPea_@HitWithAHeart@MindMapLyra@ALilBitOfDex@ThrillOfChayse@ARareJule didn’t want him to say.
Lyra refuses. Of course she does. Not like this.
But I’m already watching the feeds, already seeing the edges of this start to strain. Penny’s stable because she doesn’t have to feel him. Dex is stable because he does. And those two things cannot—
@BitterSweetPea_@HitWithAHeart@MindMapLyra@ALilBitOfDex@ThrillOfChayse@ARareJule Im logged into the systems mainframe, Penny and Dex’ vitals are both in front if me, despite Dex being on the other side of the city.
So, I know somethings wrong before Dex says anything. Not from the monitors or not from the numbers.
From him.
Dex has come back cleaner—
@HitWithAHeart@BitterSweetPea_@SinsOfMyPast_ first time since he met her….stops breathing her name. Because there’s nothing left in him that remembers how. And pretty soon, in as little as two minutes I’ll not remember her name either.
@HitWithAHeart@BitterSweetPea_@SinsOfMyPast_ He doesn’t go limp gently. His whole body surrenders at once, like pain finally shut him off.I lower him to the floor. My hands shake against his shoulders. Behind the barrier, the lights fade.
The hum stops.
Erasure complete.
Penelope Sinclair is gone.
And Jack?
for the—