User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2016/@comment-7562999-20160816135658

The lab is eerie and dusty. No one has obviously used it a while...Strangely, there is a strange glowing vial sitting on the main console. The frames of robots and severed mechanical heads litter the lab. The lab has a very unsettling atmoshphere.

GH: "Well, of course I don't know what it tastes like. I haven't actually eaten any."

Strongheart sits down on the floor again and falls asleep. He seems to have taken a likely to falling asleep here for some reason. He closes his eyes and drifts off...

Strongheart finds himself in a barren grassland. A wind blows through the flat expanse, rustling the weeds. Strongheart looks to the right and sees a brown pegasus sitting next to him, AVERI. She sighs. "I found myself here a while ago, Strongheart. It confuses me...I feel...I don't know what I feel. It just...burns in my gut. It...It...Is this what pain feels like? Is this the burden you carry? All ponies?"

Strongheart just looks out at the expanse. "Yes, I suppose all ponies carry some sort of pain with them. Whether it is emotional or physically, we all bleed."

AVERI shakes her head. "I don't understand any of this. Acolyte gave me very, very muffled emotion to keep me from just being another nut job AI. I have morals and an idea of what's right and wrong without having to rely on my programming. However, he made sure the emotion never grew to full volume. He wanted me to base all my decisions on logic. He was afraid that if I became too emotional, I would turn into an irrational, dangerous weapon. I fear maybe he was right in that assumption...These...emotions. Love and misery, is what I believe you call them, I have never experienced them. I have never felt pain, nor happiness. I know only logic and calculated reasoning. It's...hard for me to grasp this."

SH: "That comes in time..."

AVERI looks at Strongheart dubiously. "I don't know about that. You are taking all of this very well. Having a new voice in your head probably doesn't help much."

Strongheart just shrugs. "It's not the end of the world. Besides, what am I going to do about it now. You are binded with me. We are together until the end."

AVERI: "End...? What do you mean end? I am an AI, I do not end."

SH: "I assume that you are mortal now, AVERI...So yes, you will eventually cease to live."

AVERI looks dumbstruck by this. "Wh-what...No! I am...immortal."

AVERI just slumps onto the ground. "This is all so confusing...I cannot comprehend any of it..."

Strongheart lays down next to AVERI. "We're in this together...Don't worry..."

Together, they look up at the stars...