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Becks scoffed

To her credit, George ignored her, and continued "One of the orderlies, Gregory Lake, was actually an EIS doctor assigned to infiltrate the facility He’s one of the people who got me out He told me I’d been created fros and implanted information I’inal Georgia Mason" She looked toward me "I’m not her, and I am, all at the same time"

"So you’re not really her, and we can shoot you now, right?" asked Becks

Mahir shook his head, frowning "No"

"What?" Becks gave him a wounded look "Why not?"

"I’ve read some of the memory recovery studies It arose froe victi but electrical impulses stored in meat If you can measure and codify those impulses, you can transcribe what a person ree How could they hts if I was dead?

Whether I liked it or not, it was a good question "George was dead," I said "So how does that work?"

"Kellis-A the electricity in the body and brain back on after the point of death," said Maggie We all turned to look at her, even George She shrugged "Raised by pharnates, re of the human brain, because it won’t let the brain die It turns back on again and again, trying to keep thinking Only the virus starts getting in the way of those electrical impulses It scrambles them The body can’t translate what the brain wants anymore, and so the virus just takes over"

"If the CDC’s built a syste the electrical i out the static and then i them in a new mind, it’s entirely feasible that they’d be able to accohtfully at George

"I’e "That’s why they decantedto sell the tech that hest bidder"

Every eye in the rooie She blinked, and then slowly shook her head "No way My parents wouldn’t do so like that, even if they could afford it"

"Are you sure?" I asked

"Yes I ae bit her lip "Anyway I wasn’t supposed to be here"