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Sage walked over and stooped before he offered his hand to her. “How are you feeling?”
“Like I was hit by a cart,” she replied as she accepted his hand.
Sage helped her to her feet and looked at the pair of men behind the desk. “Does this automata happen to have a name?” he asked the executor.
Andrus stiffened and nodded. “Yes. The ancient records listed the automata’s name as a vidori apparatus.”
I started back. That was the title Allie had given me when I first met her in my dreams before our adventure in the floating city.
Sage’s eyes flickered to me as a warning before he returned his attention to the pair. “Now that we have proven your theory, how do you propose to capture the memories of the inmates? Send them in one at a time and have them stand still as we remove th
