User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2016/@comment-7562999-20160808141554

Strongheart's breathing is very shallow. He is barely holding onto life...

Strongheart's mind fills with radio static. The stallion then finds himself seated in a simple room with a table and two chairs. Strongheart walks up to one of the chairs and sits. A door opens on the opposite side of the room. A head pokes in...or what seems to he a head. The head of this pony seems to be made entirely of code. When it speaks, the voice is garbled and hard to make out..."Wh...Mmmm...Ahh...Were...I? Where am...I? Where am I? Hurts..it hurts...burning. Burning. I cannot comprehend this...Burning. What..is it?"

The pony limps into the room, taking corporeal form. It takes the form of a simple brown colored Pegasus with a black mane...her eyes are a bale green. Her wings flap wildly as she hunches over. Her voice sounds again, this time Strongheart understands it. AVERI's voice is filled with so much pain. "This twisting in my gut. This burning in my chest. I feel...How can I...feel?"

AVERI finally looks up at Strongheart. "Master Strongheart! You are here too?"

AVERI rushes up to the table, but then pauses and glances at the chair...she seems bothered by something..."The shock...I told you not to do it, but you did anyway. The last thing I remember was a blinding light and ceaseless...pain...I think. Are we...dead? Did you kill us both?"

Strongheart looks down at his hooves. "I am not sure AVERI. Only time will tell."

AVERI: "Time...I am an AI, Strongheart. If I am destroyed, there is no coming back. Silverheart may have given me a soul, but I am still only a....program..."

She looks down at her foreleg and her eyes widen. "What is this? What has happened to me!?"

AVERI falls back on her haunches in a panic. Strongheart is about to respond when a eeriely familiar chuckle sounds. Then, a forever snarky voice echoes throughout the room. "Oh, AVERI...my crowning creation. Look what you have been subjegated to. Sharing a mind with..him."

Strongheart looks around wildly...he whispers one single word. "Brother?"

The voice pays no mind to SH, focusing only on AVERI. "I gave you a soul, and look how it backfired. I never would have guessed that something like this could happen. Now, your mind and Strongheart's are one. You will feel his pain, his emotion, his love. And he will always have access to you and your guidance. As well as other things, I suppose. I'm glad Strongheart did what he did. He brought you too so close to death that I am able to speak you for this brief moment. So, AVERI, I wish you luck. Emotions can weigh on you a lot. Do not try to pay any mind to them."

The voice pauses. "You will be waking soon. I must take my leave. Godspeed, AVERI and Strongheart. Maybe you will both be able to learn something from this."

The voice fades into nothing. AVERI just stands, still as a statue. She is at an utter loss for words. "I...I..."

Strongheart looks around the room and sees that another door has opened behind him. He turns back to AVERI. "AVERI..."

The Pegasus turns to Strongheart. He motions to the door. "Come on...Let's go."

AVERI looks warily at Strongheart. The stallion then offers a hoof. "Please, AVERI."

AVERI slowly walks over to Strongheart. She hesitates for about a minute. Then, she takes his hoof. "Together."

Strongheart nods. "Together."

The pair leaves through the open door..."

In the waking world, Strongheart breathing ceases...