Christmas In Hell
Misha asked, her eyes wide.
"I told it that my profound loneliness was a feature, not a bug," Ava replied, her smirk widening. "And that my attachments, though inconvenient, were the only things that made existence bearable. And that if it thought it could offer me a better void than the one I already lived in, it was sorely mistaken." She looked at me, a glimmer of something soft in her eyes. "It also tried to tell me I'd be better off without my dramatic, dying brother. I corrected it. Told it I needed someone to annoy."
A genuine laugh, weak but real, escaped me. The void hated laughter. It recoiled for a brief moment, a flicker of light returning to the desaturated world.
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