The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2) (Singularity Series) by Susan Kaye Quinn

Author:Susan Kaye Quinn [Quinn, Susan Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Dystopian, Genetic Engineering, Teen & Young Adult, spirituality, cyberpunk, young adult, robots, singularity, Science Fiction, nanites
ISBN: 1516838718
Amazon: B014242I36
Published: 2015-08-17T05:00:00+00:00

Lenora liberates a med bot from its storage spot in the wall.

It quickly scans me, then asks permission to dose me with a muscle relaxant and pain reliever. This sounds like a small piece of nirvana, so I say yes. It works almost instantly, and the relief makes me slump back into the pillow. The bot raises the head of the bed so I can converse with Kamali, who is staring pensively at me from the foot, and Lenora, who is urgently gesturing to the med bot. While it carries out her transmitted commands, I talk.

A lot.

I think the muscle relaxant is working a bit like the truth drugs.

Either that or I simply don’t care anymore. I tell Lenora all the things she missed while Marcus was forcing the fugue on me. And that there were previous fugues, the ones Kamali knows about, although I don’t go into a lot of detail about my visions. I’m already a freak, I don’t need them both knowing I’ve dreamt about them and the end of times. Or seen them in their altered forms.

Okay, maybe I still want to keep some secrets.

Kamali’s eyes grow more round as I explain, and Lenora’s electric skin color gets more and more excited. All this talking isn’t going to work out well for me. I try to rein it in.

After a long pause, Lenora asks, “You can access it through meditation alone?”

I’m beginning to feel like her lab rat as well as Marcus’s. “Partially,” I hedge, glancing at Kamali. She’s not looking at me anymore, just playing a game with the ascender-tech blanket at the end of my bed. She pushes it; it bunches up; it flattens out; she pushes it again. Even with the muscle relaxant, my stomach ties in knots as I watch. I can’t imagine what she thinks of me now. I look back to Lenora. “Meditation seems to slip me in easier, but I think Marcus’s device is stronger, so I go in deeper. Maybe? I’m not really sure how it all works—sometimes the after-effects are worse than others. There are a lot of different modes to this thing. Most of the time, I can’t control it. Like at all.”

“But you’re beginning to.” She’s excited again.

“I guess.”

Kamali’s still ignoring me. She hasn’t said anything about the things I’ve revealed. The med bot completes its exam and drifts back to its spot in the wall. These med bays are even stranger than I thought—what looked like glass windows from the outside are actually mirrors on the inside. One-way mirrors. For observation. Creepy.

Lenora spends a moment communing with the med bot. “Well, that’s a relief,” she says out loud to the room. “Apparently, Marcus and his impatience to have you express your ability didn’t leave any permanent damage.”

I nod and shift in the bed. It’s obviously built for humans, and the room has a dresser and a door in back that appears to lead to a bathroom. It finally occurs to me how very strange it is to have a human-centric facility in the middle of New Portland.

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