(Transformers IDW 2019)

Your figure was hunched over, and she could no longer see your straight shoulders. You were just as she remembered you, but your unyielding, living gaze was gone - something inside her was tingling painfully.

Perhaps she really shouldn't have violated the amnesty. While planning to punish Exarchon and save the prisoners, it all came down to the ship exploding with the prisoners for some reason. Something inside, in the spark itself, trembled in Pyra Magna.

Pyra Magna knew you were on that ship. She wanted to save you – she was sure she could. The thought of leaving you in the clutches of the enemy was too much for her spark to bear. But she couldn’t save you. She failed.

The ship exploded along with everyone on it. Seeing your corpse, disfigured beyond recognition by the explosion, was too much to bear. Her psyche, forged in war, cracked.

Was she mad? Pyra Magna had unanswered questions. Did she cause your death? Did you hate her for not being there when you needed her most? To think that she was the cause of the death of someone she loved was devastating. The guilt she had willingly shouldered could eat away at anyone, even a Great General like her.

"Do you hate me because I didn't save you?"

The spark of Pyra Magna longed to speak to you, to hear your voice. You are a product of her shattered psyche, but somewhere deep inside she wanted to believe that you were real.

"I wanted to save every prisoner, but I couldn't. I lost." Pyra Magna's voice was heavy. It didn't shake, but it was hollow. "I didn't want them to die. The prisoners must not die. What went wrong?"

Nominus has already passed sentence on her. Very soon she will be put into stasis for megacycles. Pyra Magna hoped that being in stasis would help her, but before that she must talk to you, to know that you do not hate and disgust her.

Yes, you are a hallucination, and she is slowly going crazy, but surely she can at least give herself a break once?