Chapter 6
The first thing I felt was heat. All over. Wrapped around my naked body, almost smothering me, but I didn’t feel alarmed. I felt…content? Satisfied? Almost. The emotion felt familiar, but richer than any label I could put on it.
That was when I knew the divination had been a success. I’m very well aware of my own feelings, having been stuck with them for the centuries I have. This was new, almost foreign.
Not mine, though it felt like it.
Leandro’s.
I concentrated on the sensations. Though I had been annihilating memories and personas since my creation, my experiences with them were more cerebral than visceral. I learned facts. A gentler soul might be able to assimilate those facts into something more evocative, but I had always dealt with the reality of what I was given. It
