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The Magus
The warm woman I held in my gloved hands at least looked perfect. But
this was not the first time I had made a seemingly “perfect” recreation,
and I was certain that this would be another failure because she did not
scream. Any clone I had created with any vitality at all had at least
screamed before they died.
The only other silent ones seemed to refuse to
breathe the moment they were out of their incubation tanks. They had
blinked at me, uncomprehending, with unfocused eyes before their skin
faded to blue as if blue were the color they were meant to be all along. Like
stones darkened black with water fading to gray as the sun scrapes them
dry, it was as if, though totally human, they were born empty, with no soul.
I was starting to think that I needed to change my method—that there was
something more that a human required in order to develop the will to live.
Some organic stimuli that my hard, crystalline tanks, which, as far as I
could see, were technically perfect, could not provide.
The two who had screamed the hardest had lived the longest (though
not nearly long enough.) Thus, I was certain this latest attempt would not
survive the hour. I lay her down on my wooden worktable and watched her.
I waited for her to stop breathing. I was habituated to failure. A few hours
later, she was still alive, so I poured nutritional gruel down her compliant
throat and wrapped her in a freshly cleaned quilt.
When she was still alive the next day, I carried her upstairs out of my
basement laboratory and into the manor’s master bedroom. I placed her on
the expansive bed, tucked a quilt around her, then I resumed watching her in
her bed. She looked too vulnerable. Too weak. Too empty. Nothing like the
original Eva.
Her eyes roamed the room so like the original Eva’s but unseeing,
uncomprehending. A confused animal, hardly more than a plant in an adult
woman’s body. All she was, was electrical impulses and flesh. If she
survived, would she be more than the sum of her parts? Maybe. Maybe not.
If she survived, it would take her a few more days for her eyes to relay the
signals of what she sees to her brain–if I were lucky. If I were unlucky, this
was as far as her development would go.
Thus, the thirteenth Eva survived the week and then the year. In that
year, she learned to see, to think, to talk, to walk. I was the one that taught
her these things. I taught her all I thought she would need to know, while I
hired others to look after her physical and emotional needs. I wanted to
teach her to think and walk and talk like Eva. I needed her to be Eva.
I did not allow myself to like her for the first five years—until she had
well out-survived all her predecessors but the first, the original. Then, and
only then, did I allow myself to become attached and allow the terror that
comes with attachment to sink into me.
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