The Things We Would Bear

"Let no one know you have him."

This was the quiet warning Leo received when he was discharged from the Human Military Unit and given his support companion. After human soldiers became obsolete—replaced by intelligent systems and mechanical operators—veterans like Leo were sent to live in the shadows of the HMU Block at the edge of Ft. Stratton. A place for those faded from memory to forget.

Leo wants to stay forgotten. But he wasn't given a standard-issue companion. He got Bear.

Small, silent...