Tuk seems to know where he’s headed, so she lets him walk ahead of her despite her misgivings. “Technically, she’s not my sister,” he says once they establish a good pace along what might be a hunter’s trail. “I can’t have a sister. I’m an atmech; I was made, not born. It’s just that our blueprints were extracted from a pair of twins who lived centuries ago, and we were made at the same time. We also came to life with some of their memories. Flashes, really, but enough to recognize each other from that other life.” That makes her your sister in every meaningful definition of the word, Ilapara
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