with no sign of life at all

Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Xenosaga (Video Games)

Gen | for ExclCross | 100 words | 2023-01-30 | the lamb | AO3

Jan Sauer | Ziggurat 8 | Ziggy & M.O.M.O. | MOMO Mizrahi

Jan Sauer | Ziggurat 8 | Ziggy, M.O.M.O. | MOMO Mizrahi

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

MOMO is unnaturally, concerningly still.

Her heart may be just an optional function, but his isn't - it's still there, beating, in his chest - and it hurts. He's...not sure if he wishes they'd taken it out (or he'd replaced it) before this day had come.

It's...irrelevant. A signal carrying no data or urgency. Purely functional.

Indeed?

His eyes can see when MOMO is and isn't in danger, when she is or isn't in need of protection. The human heart will not help him with that.

But MOMO needs him to have one, to harbor hers.

So the beat continues.