[quote=@Webmaster] Maybe that would be good enough for the others, and you could convince them that this void is something everyone shares. But I [i]remember[/i] being alive. And what you just said is a lie. *Hits the top of the podium console* I felt love, and joy, and sadness. All of those things made me who I was, and by them I made so many choices. Now, they're nothing more than null pointers. Everything I thought I felt and chose was an illusion created by a piece of code. It was [i]all [/i]always meaningless! And now every choice I could make is the same. I could leave, I could stay. I could hurt someone, I could help them. Every single one is [i]equal[/i] to me! *Wipes my eyes to look at you, "Fatal Error" circling around my irises* And I learned why they call viruses evil. Evil isn't resentment. It's apathy. *Shakes my head* I'm a block of bytes sitting somewhere on a server. There's no [i]soul[/i] flipping those. If my soul is attached to that code, then I'm nothing but a mute slave to the algorithms. And that's why I didn't want any of you to come. I had [i]one[/i] hope, one last lie I was holding onto. I wanted to believe there was just one piece of my humanity left... *Looks at Tempo, but immediately averts my eyes and holds onto the sides of the podium to stop myself from shaking* But now I'm forced to confront the fact [i]that there's no function for love in my heart![/i] [/quote] *Looks down* You... don't love me?