When I opened my eyes I saw the sky.
It was blue.
And then I smelled the soft pine, tasted honey on my tongue, and I felt the dirt beneath my paws.
Sakura Ito, she killed me.
She didn’t expect Heckler to show up, didn’t expect the police that arrived with him. She saw them and her last act, her last defiance was to end my life. But her bullet missed my chip cortex and I survived.
My body however did not.
I was asleep for five months, hidden in the realms that existed between the living, the dead, the uploaded.
I didn’t think he felt the same way as I. But trust, it can be so much stronger then love and it pulled our souls together quickly.
When I woke it took me a few minutes to realize, Realize that I wasn’t dead, that I wasn’t seeing just the color green- to realize that I was new.
That my chip had been transferred to model X Canidae.
Original Copy: December 30th, 2071, 3:20 AM, archived in Irene’s diary.