“Then maybe I’m the reason you left.”
“No. At least not in the way you mean. I’ve loved you and followed you every day of your life.”
“You’re the reason I’m enhanced.”
“Not exactly. I founded Noble Laboratories, which had the vision to pursue the technology we developed to help the injured. Repair severed spinal cords. Regrow neurological tissue. Reverse diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus and arthritis. Then the government decided what we had could be used to enhance soldiers. If they could go days without sleep or food, travel over long distances on foot and not tire, have better senses, be stronger, then wars would be shorter. It would be easier to topple communist and fascist regimes, take out terrorists, and save the lives of countless civilians in the process.”
“Then I
