With pre-programmed grace, she watched as Elohim took a step towards her, then another… her body closing against her.  Corrine’s eyes flickered closed for a moment as Elohim moved her arms around her, in the cool soft embrace of this weapon and in the silent heart of her chambers… coupled with the close proximity of the silent star field of her thoughts, she felt something she hadn’t for some time… that she wasn’t ‘alone’.<br/><br/>She smiled softly as these curious thoughts pressed upon her, it had only been through having caught the fleeting touch of every soul on the planet and knowing each individual agony, and being unable to escape from them… that she knew the truth of what it was to be alone… but in the cooling ‘embrace’ she had found someone who could take away her ‘pain’.<br/><br/>Her leather jacket still lay open, her pale breast glistening with the spill of crimson that still trickled from the blood sacrifice she had presented to the ancient and as their bodies touched she felt a shivering arc spear her… lacing the softness of the mechanics outer layer with a thin trail of her own lifeblood…In her mind, she felt perhaps something deeper had been shared… something truly primal, whether Elohim knew or not, and likely she enacted on her own pure logic,  but when she drew her finger across her wound and tasted her blood, Corrine felt an ache run through her…<em> insane… illogical…</em>but nonetheless it spoke to her of a bonding of blood…<br/><br/><em> I understand…</em>…Corrine’s mouth registered a faint smile at her words… there was a dispassion in her voice, as there always was when she spoke… maybe there was something more… maybe she had just hoped there were, she reasoned that either way<br/><br/>Corrine’s hand lifted towards Elohim’s face, her fingers flicked away the shimmering gold cascade from her stoic expression as the backs of her digits drifted across her cheek. She fixed her piercing blue eyes against the glittering blue disc’s of Elohim’s and gazed with soft intent… feeling the threads of her mind reach forward and embrace her hushed consciousness.<br/><br/>She knew it wouldn’t be much longer before the swell of carnage… blood… pain… destruction and devastation would be wrought at their hands, and the screams of agony from the lifestream would once more buffet her thoughts… but she held onto the enveloping oblivion for as long as she could…<br/>