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After setting the bearing for Lathar Prime and engaging the autopilot, Rynn pushed off from the command chair and made his way to the back of the Ker— no, he couldn’t call it the Keris’tial anymore. With the AI, with Keris gone, it was just an ordinary shuttle.
He sat down heavily on the bed and shoved his hands into his hair. It even felt different in here. Like metal. Not alive. The overhead lights seemed duller and he couldn’t bring himself to look at the command console, knowing the lights on the AI housing would be out.
Keris had been with him since he was little more than a boy, the one time being a hero champion’s son had given him any benefit. He’d turned what was an expensive toy into a playmate, and then a companion, and finally a partner, having Keris upgraded and moved in
