[Precisely. She does laugh a little bitterly at his mutant comment and grabs the whiskey bottle from him again.]
Kinda am. In my own way, in my world. Animals develop mutations to survive, to evolve in their world. I sorta developed my own. [She sighs and takes a swig of whiskey.] Topher, boy genius who figured this out, sets up my brain to work with personality programming, right? He also sets up the machine that wipes my brain to a tabula rasa state. It's impossible according to all his rules, programming and shit to resist the wipe, to hang on to memories and personalities, to realize what the hell he's doing. There are thousands of actives, maybe more and there's two of us who can do what I did.
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Yeah, they could. They did.
[Precisely. She does laugh a little bitterly at his mutant comment and grabs the whiskey bottle from him again.]
Kinda am. In my own way, in my world. Animals develop mutations to survive, to evolve in their world. I sorta developed my own. [She sighs and takes a swig of whiskey.] Topher, boy genius who figured this out, sets up my brain to work with personality programming, right? He also sets up the machine that wipes my brain to a tabula rasa state. It's impossible according to all his rules, programming and shit to resist the wipe, to hang on to memories and personalities, to realize what the hell he's doing. There are thousands of actives, maybe more and there's two of us who can do what I did.
[Another swig of whiskey]
Mutant.