Lena felt a tiny tremor in her chest. Not fear. Something else. The sapphire disc flickered—just a nanosecond of amber. She dismissed it as a sensor glitch.
She wasn't optimized. She was amputated.
She sat across from Corin in an interrogation room. White walls. White table. A single speaker murmured ambient frequency tones to suppress irrational thought.
Lena felt a tiny tremor in her chest. Not fear. Something else. The sapphire disc flickered—just a nanosecond of amber. She dismissed it as a sensor glitch.
She wasn't optimized. She was amputated.
She sat across from Corin in an interrogation room. White walls. White table. A single speaker murmured ambient frequency tones to suppress irrational thought.
