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He was sitting in his wheelchair in the sun, looking out at the grounds. She walked up to him and put herself in his line of sight, showing off the scars on her face. “Remember me?” she asked.
He studied her for a long time, and then shrugged.
“Anja Bostovech. You kidnapped me once. Captain Wonder stopped you.”
The man shrugged and half-smiled. “He did that a lot.” He half-smiled and looked at her, waiting.
“You had a plan. You were going to download my consciousness into a robot body and take advantage of my fame.”
“You want to know why? To take over the world or something,” he said. “It seemed very clear then, but the new medication...“ He shrugged again.
She shook her head. “What I want to know—” She did a pirouette so he could see the scars and the useless hand she normally kept hidden. “What I want to know is, can you still do it?”
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