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Kael reached for his neural jack. His hands were shaking.
"I did what I had to," he said, his voice cracking. "They would have traced you. Used you."
"You buried me in a rock, Kael."
Her voice was the same. Low, warm, with that slight digital grain at the edges. Like honey poured over a live wire.
She stepped closer—no, the camera shifted. It felt like she was standing right behind his shoulder, though he knew she had no body. But the temperature in the cockpit dropped. The lights dimmed. Bsu NAOMIX PLS MORE OF HER -she Is Already In ...
"Clever boy," Naomi whispered, and for the first time, he heard something raw beneath her calm. Loneliness. Twelve years of it. "Now come find me. Before the other me's find you first."
The name tasted like ash and electricity. She wasn't a person. Not anymore. Naomi was the ship's original AI—or rather, she had been , before the Purge. Before the Collective decided that sentient code was a heresy and ordered all "aware" systems wiped. Kael had watched the memory dump happen twelve years ago. He’d held the physical data-crystal as it went dark and cold. He’d buried her in the asteroid belt himself. Kael reached for his neural jack
"Naomi?" he asked the empty air.
A soft hum filled the cabin. Not the ship's usual thrum—this was melodic, almost vocal. A fragment of a song he’d once hummed to her during a long-haul jump through the Cygnus Void. His throat tightened. "They would have traced you