CHAPTER 45Though Dr. Canfield didn’t see the point in Mara going into the repository to check on Ping and Sam, the doctor granted permission but only under the condition that Cam escort Mara, since all the attendants were busy dealing with returnees at the moment. Mara needed to focus on something other than living in a synthetic body, and she hoped checking on Ping and her brother might do the trick. She had no doubts they were okay, but she did feel guilty about consigning her brother to the tube with little preparation or preamble. Maybe the guilt would push away the sense of panic and doubt she felt about being displaced from her own body.
“Considering that you did not grow up expecting to transition to a synthetic body, you seem to be coping with it quite well,” Cam said, as they wal
