“My mother,” David added.
Everybody was listening in fascination. This connection between Conall and Manasseh seemed so made up and otherworldly that it took Rahab some effort to believe it. Conall had always seemed like a mystic to her, a man who did nothing but tell stories, not a man who used to be a programmer and who had invented something so huge.
“Conall had a daughter,” Jed said, nodding. “And he was not willing to give her up. He was not at all in favor of the social purge where children were taken from their parents overnight. So like many, he fled into the mountains before this happened. But because he felt so betrayed by Manasseh, he decided he could not leave the algorithm in his hands. He set out to destroy it. This is where the Prometheus Prophecy comes into play.”
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