“HPO like me?”
“High Potential Opportunity, the breeding program established to develop HPOs … lifeforms with a high potential of producing offspring that generates an autonomous energy-rich lifeform.”
high potential“What? Like me? How like me?”
“You’re part of the program,” Asher said matter-of-factly, as if this were obvious and didn’t require further explanation.
In the face of everything that had just happened I still had room to be shocked and stunned. Asher was claiming that I was part of this insane conspiracy story that she was telling me about. I did not doubt her, and I did not want to believe her, there was no part of my life to date that was not a lie, not part of a huge practical joke being played on me. “I came from a commercial bottle farm, part of the Asher-Brooke Cons
