THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
"I chose to destroy you."
"Same thing," he smiled, and then he began to dissolve, his form turning into a cloud of glowing, digitized dust that spiraled toward the ceiling.
Cattleya watched him go, feeling the cold darkness of the deletion wave rushing up to meet her. The walls of the cathedral were fading, the city of Oakhaven was flickering like a dying bulb, and the infinite hallway of canisters”her nursery”was finally, mercifully, turning to black.
As the last of the code collapsed, she didn't close her eyes. She waited for the nothingness, a final, defiant witness to the end of the world.