Barry's mind reeled as he processed what the woman had just said. He had a daughter? He had twenty clones of himself that had been created without his knowledge? The experiment that he thought he had helped dismantle was actually entering a new phase?
"How is this possible?" Barry asked, his voice barely a whisper. "I would have known. Someone would have told me."
"Thomas kept it secret," Emma said calmly. "He kept it secret because he knew that if you knew about us, you would be unable to move forward with your life. You would have spent your entire existence worrying about what would happen to us, how we would be treated, what our purposes would be."
Emma stood and walked to a window overlooking the mountains.
"I am twenty-three years old," Emma said. "I was grown in a laboratory and
