Lina blinked. Tears rolled down her cheeks. "Kael?" she whispered. "I had a nightmare. A long one."
"Resets the limbic system. Purges third-party code." metal plug download
He didn't care what they called him. He sat alone in a Faraday cage, the original plug still warm in his hand, now containing the sum of a thousand souls' worst moments. His own thoughts were long gone. All that remained was the loop. Lina blinked
She didn't see the Metal Plug, now warm and humming faintly, still lodged in her port. She didn't see Kael quietly pull it out and slip it into his own pocket. now warm and humming faintly