Fear

His resemblance to Chiron paralyzed her.Tara revealed that a synthetic was revived but Vasquez never expected to see it face to face. She trembled and began to cry for the first time in a long time. These things never had to exist, she thought. If only she could travel back in time to India and reason with the engineers. If only they knew the terror their creations would cause to other humans. But wasn't that the point? The synthetics did exactly what they were made to do. Nevermind. Forget reason. Better to go back and blow out their exceptional creative brains. Heartbreak quickly changed to anger. Move Lauren, she whispered. Her hand released the concussion grenade and she ran. She ran as fast as she could.