Killing His Only Life Tether
Language: en
I used to believe Robert was the man who pulled me from the wreckage of the world. He told me he possessed a "Directive"—a neurological interface that granted him foresight and power. He promised that in this frozen hellscape, he would be my sanctuary. He promised we would survive the Great Freeze together. Instead, I became a prisoner. I watched as they methodically broke my limbs, and then, like a bag of refuse, they tossed me into the permafrost to be used and discarded. As the light in my eyes began to flicker, I remembered the activation code he had once whispered in a moment of…