I'm alive.
I'm dying.
I'm having an orgasm.
So pleasurable it was almost painful, and yet, she'd do it again in a microsecond.
Unfortunately, her lover might not have the same ability.
Avion collapsed on her, and after the explosive passion, which still muddled her brain, it took her a moment to process what it meant.
When it did, a new emotion assailed her, and panicky words emerged from her lips, words not spoken by Lilith but the other who lived in her head. "We killed him. Oh no. We killed the man we love."
Not quite. But Avion certainly wasn't well. The boost from her nanos seemed to have worn off. Once again, the bots coursing through his body chose to die rather than regenerate.
It made no sense.
Lilith rolled him off her body and onto his back. She skimmed her hands down his length, but it didn't change the prognosis. While the nano-infused blood she'd given still did its best to repair, slowly, one by one, the tiny bots that he needed died.