The Luminous Dead

“I know, but I want you to hear me. It’d be the easy path to turn off my computer and walk away, but I will be here. I will be here, and I will fight like hell to keep you alive, and if I fail, I’ll be here then, too. And you can curse me and hate me and you’ll be right to do so. But I don’t want you to feel like you’re alone, not ever again. You have me.”

I don’t need her to be a person.
But she wanted her to be.