The bullet punched through Eros's skull like it was made of paper, brain matter erupting across the concrete in violent splashes that looked like abstract art painted with the essence of life itself. His body collapsed with the wet slap of meat hitting stone, blood spreading in a crimson halo around the ruin of his head.
Agent Ellis lowered his rifle, professional satisfaction cutting sharp lines into his face. "Threat terminated. Move on the—"
The words strangled to silence as the corpse at his feet began to do something impossible.
[DING! HOST 1st LIFE TERMINATION CONFIRMED]
[DEPLOYING FINAL PROTOCOL: LUST INCARNATE]
[ALL LIMITATIONS REMOVED]
[WARNING: ALTERATION IMMINENT]
Rose-colored radiance bled from the shattered skull, seeping upward like liquid fire that danced against gravity. The glow poured into ruined flesh, stitching bone back together, reweaving gray matter into alien patterns, rewriting synapses with designs that belonged to nightmares rather than biology.
