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“Not until you start having sex with her. Then it is going to be all kinds of awkward, especially if you rate her like you do the others.”
Ados tried to imagine how he would feel if anyone discussed one of his siblings in those terms. “Right. I will keep our interactions to myself.”
Kynor nodded. “Thanks.”
“Why haven’t you registered at the BDC?”
Kynor grinned. “I don’t meet the age requirement.”
“What?”
“Dude, I am only sixteen. I was designed to mature quickly, but birthdates are birthdates. My body is fully grown, but age is age.”
Ados stared. “What?”
“I started here when I was eleven, and now, I am nearly seventeen.”
“How old is Kyda?”
“She’s twenty-four.”
“Oh, thank goodness.” Ados leaned over and gripped his knees. He shuddered in relief.
Ados eventually straightened. He should have known. The BDC was strict about the legalities of interactions.
He wondered how his grandmother was getting along with the woman in question. He was suddenly also curious to find out what she had thought of their picnics.
* * * *
Kyda followed Nandy down to her secret lab. It wasn’t a secret at the house, but Nandy had told her about all the protection and shrouding on the lab. If Nandy didn’t authorize things every three days, the lab would immolate.
Nandy led her to a terminal and said, “I am going to give you complete access to my files.”
“What?”
“There is base programming in your genes. The experiment will come second nature to you.”
“Experiment? You mean the one that made me?”
“Precisely. So many more of you should have survived if they did it properly, but they didn’t, so we are down to two.”
Kyda nodded. “I was the last propagated, but Kynor was the last grown. I grew at normal speed, but I don’t remember any of the other children before us. We know that there were seven of us in total, but the others were destroyed.”
Nandy nodded. “That is unlikely, but I suppose it is possible.”
“Why unlikely? The records at the lab were succinct. The experiments were terminated.”
“There were rumours that Uradan tech was surging beyond their education level. That usually comes when making a deal with other countries.”
“Oh.” Kyda absorbed that information.
She was given a login and passcode to access whatever she wanted to.
“I will have Ados bring me a second terminal so you can study.”
“Uh. Okay. He’s coming back?”
“He is.”
