“You don"t need to do this, Kane,” said Malleus.
“What the hell are you doing?” said Selene.
Malleus ignored her. “I"ve seen the confusion in you, more than once. You know what they"ve done to you; you"ve seen it done to others. There"s something inside your brain controlling you. They put one inside me, too, to track me. The real you is still in there, confused, frightened. You"ve done terrible things, but let us past and we can help you. We can restore you to yourself just as Selene has been restored. You don"t have to follow Godel"s orders anymore.”
There was a moment when confusion flashed through Kane"s eyes. Confusion and something almost worse: hope. Some part of him did see what had been done to him, what he"d become. He dropped the tip of the blaster a few centimetres, losin
