The Last Human by Zack Jordan
Author:Zack Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00
Sarya hangs in Eleven’s straps, struggling with a boot clasp that just won’t give up, angrily aware that she is returning to the same subject for the third time in ten minutes.
“But what is her problem?” she demands. “Is it because she’s a three? Is she just possessive? What?”
[You know how it works], says Eleven. [I’m sub-legal. This is just life.]
“Life?” Sarya almost shouts. “It’s…it’s wrong, that’s what it is.”
[Think so?] says Eleven. [Did you come to that conclusion before or after you used your sanitation station this morning?]
“Okay, you’ve already used that one on me,” says Sarya, pointing toward where she imagines Eleven’s intelligence core to be. “And you know what? It’s different. My sanitation station is not smart enough to clean my teeth without drawing blood, let alone hold a conversation, let alone…let alone—”
[Outsmart a Human?]
She claps her hands together. “Sure, why the hell not. You know how many times my sanitation station has saved my life? Zero. And you do it like every other day. Don’t you think that makes you a little…I don’t know. Different? Special?”
[It makes me a pressure suit. That’s my job.]
“You’re supporting this system? You think it’s right? You think Sandy should have the right to just, to just own you and tell you what to do and—”
[She caught Roche down here a couple days ago], interrupts Eleven.
Sarya pauses. She struggles a moment, attempting to stoke her anger, but her curiosity is making a compelling case. “You make that sound so—” She pauses to search for the word. “Illicit?”
[We’re just friends], says Eleven quickly.
Sarya feels her eyebrows rise. If Eleven was trying to distract her, it’s working. “And now it’s more illicit,” she says.
[He says he wants to tinker with my grav assembly.]
And now something unfamiliar is pulling at the corners of Sarya’s mouth. She coughs into Roche’s hand before replying. “That sounds, um…serious?”
Eleven doesn’t say anything for a moment. And then: [It does seem like a big step.]
“Yeah,” Sarya says, her face grave. “I remember the first time I…let someone tinker with my grav assembly. I was”—cough—“never the same.”
[Oh. You’re going to be like that.]
“I hope you’re not jealous,” says Sarya, flexing Roche’s hand in as casual a manner as she can manage. “I mean, that he tinkered with me first.”
[I know what you’re trying to do.]
“I really consider him a part of me now,” says Sarya, examining the hand from another angle. It’s surprisingly difficult to keep a straight face even when you can’t remember how to smile on purpose. “Of course, this is no grav assembly—”
Eleven hums somewhere deep inside itself, a low-frequency rumble that rattles Sarya’s teeth. [Can we stop with the cracks about my grav assembly?]
“The only one who’s cracking your grav assembly is— No, wait!” Sarya presses back as Eleven’s hatch yawns open into the darkness. “No more from me, I swear.”
Eleven folds closed. [All right, fine], it says. [Here’s the truth. Roche has been helping me prepare for the intelligence test.]
Sarya blinks. “You mean…for tier?”
[Right.
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