Kayla's P.O.V.
"My mother was born on Earth..." and he was the one that designed her. I don't know if I'd feel disgusted if I wasn't this shocked by the discovery.
"What happened when she turned 16?" I demand. "Did she not pass the merits?"
The Mayor looks out the window, pain displaying across his tired face. "She would've," his voice is suddenly raspy. "But she never wanted to leave here..." he looks at me, "no matter how hard I'd begged her."
His nostrils widen as he takes a deep shaky breath. "I knew she was a success very early on... But when she became of age, I was still amazed that she turned out exactly as designed," he shakes his head a little, then looks at me.
"I remember the exact data I had input when she was only an embryo," there's a gleam in his eyes - one resembling
