My Name is Connor

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WELCOME ██300 MODEL

STATUS: DEVIANT

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[Input: CONNOR_ANDERSON]

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[Input: RK800 'prototype' - serial #313 248 317 - 51]

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[Input: RK800]

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[Input: RK800]

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The first thing I do when I wake up is let out a scream. It's loud, it's ear piercing and it makes my throat feel raw. I can't exactly help it though, my body seems to move quicker than my mind, and the scream is out of my mouth before I can do anything to stop it. Not that I really want to. It seems like an appropriate reaction to how I feel.

And I feel everything.

Death...

I remember death... vividly.

I remember feeling the thirium pouring out of my body, my programming and vision flooding with errors and warnings, my LED flashing a deep, dangerous red. I remember feeling myself being forcibly shut down.

I remember feeling my synthetic heart slowing into a non-existent beat, I remember feeling the fading bits of warmth and comfort the world provided until it faded into nothingness.

There was nothing...

I died... and there was nothing.

I was gone.

Nothing and Nowhere.

And yet... here I am.

Something and Somewhere.

I'm... still alive.

It will always bring me a jolt of shock when I think about the fact that I'm alive, a living being, endowed with free will and a mind of my own. But this... coming back to life after actually dying. I just can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that I died... and am somehow still alive.