"If you reset the game because you were suffering, you'll never know how beautiful the ending might have been."
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She couldn't stop the tears flooding down her cheeks, her stomach turning as she intertwined her fingers with his.
She couldn't stop the crimson liquid that oozed through her sweater, it began to slip through her fingers of the one hand that pressed so tightly to hold the flood back. her tight expression of pain slowly becoming unraveled as her life threaded away.
"Next time, " she choked on life itself with a shattered grin, "I promise, we'll be together again..."
"You can't guarantee that! There are too many variables! Too many things that can go wrong, that could point you down another road!" The hacker couldn't hide his panic, his fear, he didn't want to lose her anymore. He was hysteric as he knelt beside the broken woman, "Or worse, land right you back here..."
The computer monitors that covered the room's walls flickered violently with codes and what looked like neural imaging, flooding the shadowed room with inconsistent arrays of color.
"Then... We'll make it different this time." The woman began to sputter, scarlet drops flecking the floor that was so close to her.
With a single finger, the woman beckoned him closer. He did, tears bordering his eyes as she whispered her final words into his ear.
Her delicate voice was rasped with death, yet her breath still sent chills down his spine.
With the final syllable, she fell back, a ghostly smile painted on her face as everything faded away.
The face of the oh-so-dangerous man she loved burst with a cross of emotions, his tears finally falling as he screamed out her name.
"Era!"
-RESET!-