"Still." How did you explain how..wrong it felt to listen to someone explain how their life had been written out like a book on cocktail napkins?
"It does sound like you kept yourself busy, though." But if it hadn't been for the programing, would it have even been the life he choose?
"Probably, once we fix it, you'll remember it. Better to do it than to just have the memory of seeing it, really. Doesn't stand up to the real thing. Ah, Cadmus? Are they the...?"
Something shuttered in his face, carefully closing off to hide the reaction to the almost flippant statement. "Coolest" implied that there was more than one. More than one child who had been fast raised for whatever their purposes were. People like that didn't deserve mercy.
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"It does sound like you kept yourself busy, though." But if it hadn't been for the programing, would it have even been the life he choose?
"Probably, once we fix it, you'll remember it. Better to do it than to just have the memory of seeing it, really. Doesn't stand up to the real thing. Ah, Cadmus? Are they the...?"
Something shuttered in his face, carefully closing off to hide the reaction to the almost flippant statement. "Coolest" implied that there was more than one. More than one child who had been fast raised for whatever their purposes were. People like that didn't deserve mercy.