Natasha Morgan was a ghost. Literally. She claimed to be Catherine's twin sister, but she had a presence that felt ethereal, almost as if she was not entirely solid. When I reached out to shake her hand, my fingers passed partially through her palm.
"What are you?" I asked.
"I am what the system becomes when it is used by two people simultaneously," Natasha explained. "Catherine and I were born with a rare genetic condition that allowed us to share a neural connection. We could access the system at the same time, which should not be possible. When we did, something unexpected happened. We merged. We became something that the network had never encountered before. We became a composite consciousness that exists partially in the physical world and partially in the system's realm."
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