“What are you doing now that you’re… freed from your captivity?” she asked softly.
He could tell Cassandra had forced herself to ask the polite question. Unfortunately, Will had no answer for it yet. Like others who’d been tortured and tweaked, he was still occupied with trying to survive long enough to acknowledge he had anything close to a normal life.
But that wasn’t really what Cassandra wanted to know.
Will drew in a breath and said what had to be said. “I’m still a cyborg—if that’s what you’re wondering. I will always be one, Cassandra. A full restoration wasn’t possible because of my severe damage, so recently I’ve been further redefined instead. That’s cyber scientist speak for the changes they made to my original cybernetics. They tell me I’m in transition now to some new norma
