Eden almost staggered, not from a lack of balance this time, but from the shock. She had an older brother, a half-dead child her father had somehow saved and turned into a computer's conscience... It sounded like fiction, and yet, in the world they lived in, she knew exactly how this was possible. No, she had actually seen it herself. Pan's appearance... So they had simply kept him here, and connected his brain like a central unit? They had simply preserved his body all these years, so they would retain the smartest machine ever... a machine with a real, human conscience. She could barely begin to fathom it.
"...I don't understand," she muttered. "How come... If that's true, why Father..."
"There's a lot you still don't know," he said with a gentle expression. "Let me show you."
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