Kaelen squeezed his hand. “Scared?”
R-22’s retinal display flickered with a red alert: UNSTABLE ELEMENT. DISENGAGE. Infinity- Love or Lust -R22- -CreaSou-
Kaelen smiled. “You feel it too,” she whispered, not a question. “The ache. The one that doesn’t go away after a scheduled embrace.” Kaelen squeezed his hand
He took her hand. Her pulse was a wild, asynchronous drum against his. “Then let them,” he said. “But for now, I choose you. Not because it’s easy. Not because it’s perfect. Because it’s hard , and I want the hard thing. I want the infinity.” ” she whispered
He found Kaelen in the forgotten underbelly of the Nexus, where the old pre-CreaSou graffiti remained: LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION. She was waiting, as if she’d known he’d come.