The Abandoned Luna's Return
The one who had smelled of sawdust and old paper.
"Elara?" he said, stepping off the porch. He looked at me with genuine, heartbreaking confusion. "Honey, why are you wearing that... that armor? And why are your eyes that color? You look like you've been through a war."
"It's a simulation, Elara!" Silas’s voice boomed, his obsidian hand catching my shoulder. "It’s a 'Guardian' file! Don't look at his eyes!"
"He looks so real, Silas," I choked out, a tear tracking through the soot on my cheek. "I can see the scar on his thumb from when he cut himself in the workshop. The Founder couldn't have faked that."