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"Until what?" I asked quietly, innately knowing this wasn’t so he talked about a lot Maybe ever

He was still staring at the empty walls "Until I became self-aware Sort of like Skynet You know, Terminator? I just woke up one day and was like, I’m smarter, faster, and deadlier than those who createdthem tell me when I could eat and sleep, when I could leave o to the bathrooined that didn’t involve hi out a door "What were you created for?"

"The basics," he replied "World doh "That’s basics?"

"Isn’t that what every idiot who goes down the wrong path in life wants? Maybe it doesn’t start out that way The Daedalus believed they were on the good side They’re the heroes in the story, but before they know it, they’re the villains Same with the Luxen who invaded Earth They wanted to doht they were the better species And the Daedalus? They wanted a perfect arovernment--a perfect species That was us That was ize" He looked atto do with any of that"

"I know, but" Pressure cla to do with those experiments?"

"Are you really ready for that answer?"

My breath caught "I am"

"Jason was one of the people who oversaw the Daedalus He knew exactly what they were doing and how they were doing it"

I already suspected as much, based on what Mom had told me, but still, that was a punch to the sto open the lid "I never saw Sylvia at any of the facilities, but there is no way she didn’t knohat they were doing--what her husband was doing She may not have been part of any of the experiments, but she was sure as hell coood person

"Good people do terrible things when they believe in what they’re doing," Luc covery loudly"

My eyes narrowed

One side of his lips tipped up "I’ Sylvia is a bad person There were a lot of decent people in the Daedalus who believed they were hter, safer place"

"Butthat doesn’t make what they did okay What you’ve described to me is horrific"

"It was" His eyes met mine "And I didn’t even tell you half of what they were responsible for"

My stomach twisted as I squeezed my eyes shut I didn’t knohat to think I couldn’t picture Mo raised in cells, and being okay with that If so, it wasIt was sickening, and I wasn’t that surprised that Mom had left all of this out when she told me about the Daedalus

"You knohat I’ve realized?"