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Whilst repairing Paul’s eyes, Sylas allowed Paul to ask him a few questions. In fact, he enjoyed telling his story so he actively encouraged the android’s curiosity.
“In a few minutes, when we’ve got your eyes up and running, you’ll notice that I don’t look like the rest of you.”
Paul wondered what Sylas meant by that. Sophonts didn’t all look the same but they did all have the appearance of a human in their mid-twenties, a human in good condition, a human who worked out. Sylas continued.
“You’ve never seen an android quite like me.”
Paul blinked in the bright light as his optic system self-calibrated and his visual receptors came online. Sylas checked the rest of Paul’s body for further damage but, of course, found none.
Paul was as good as new. Now that he could see, he was as su
