Just a memory...? How could it be a memory? Yet, why did his words seem to stir something in her...? Was it because he was speaking the truth? Or was it the pain she felt that was too much to bear? She just had to continue. Deleting him would send him back to his world, surely. Then she'd be alone, let to her own misery, forever. Better than have happiness taunted right in front of her.

The words on the "screen" changed, but...

> os.remove("characters/hunk.ch

...............
command pending

Right before completing the line of code that would have deleted him, she stopped. It was too hard. She had no choice, but she didn't want to do it. Unless... Trust him...

"Then do it." She closed her eyes in tears, shaking her head. "Take me to the outside world without. Do something, anything, but stop making me suffer!"