KES STOOD OUTSIDE THE hospital room door, hardly knowing what to expect. Cherry was with the staff nurse, getting the most up-to-date report on the strange ‘patient’. Two guards stood on each side of the entrance. Guards were guarding the Guardian, if that was what it was.
Unlike many of the Woken, Kes had only known the Guardians as androids. After he’d been revived, he heard the tale of Anahi, the agri-scientist’s, attempt to control the Gens by using the Guardians as a paramilitary force, but while the crisis was happening, he’d been frozen in cryo. The first time he’d seen a Guardian had been when Cariad had reactivated them and they’d come down to Concordia from their ship to help with rebuilding after the Scythian attack.
He recalled his first impressions and his realization that,
