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You've always been your number one priority.

Lori's attention is focused on you, your body, your mind. You can almost feel it, like a hand sensing the shape of you, tracing the contours of your self from the inside. And at the same time you can feel her feeling you feeling her, to infinity.

When Chalidah said this tech was flawed, she was seriously underselling it.

This is unlike anything else you have experienced before.

Lori knows you now. And you know her in return.

She is kind and idealistic. The most idealistic person you've ever known. The sort of person who wouldn't hesitate to give her life for someone she loves, or for a cause she believes in.

But there's also an edge underneath this. Something hard. Something sharp–but only because it's broken.

Is this her? Or you?

"Are you really with us?" she asks.