This is a sensitive topic for him—Ilapara knows this from experience. She also thinks she’s beginning to see the larger strokes of his plan and can’t help but suffer a strong spasm of disappointment, the feeling that she’s come all this way for nothing. “You want to bring Salo back as an atmech.” “Oh, don’t look at me like that. I’m not crazy. I know how it sounds, but it’ll work.” “I don’t see how,” she says. “Tuk, you once told me you were built from the memory of someone who lived long ago, but you’re not the same person. That means whoever your creator makes won’t be Salo but a shade.”
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