“I shouldn't have had a pounding heart anymore.”

A battle-weary cyborg soldier named Ethan encounters Mikhail, a botanist, on a planet while searching for peace. He greets him with a smile, and his soft hands seem fragile enough to be easily broken.
Ethan feels restless and fidgety around him. Wanting to touch, wanting to love – these are purely human emotions.
Ethan is puzzled that he still has such a “heart” inside of him, and as for Mikhail…