"But I didn't die," Jin said with a weak smile. "Not permanently, anyway."
"That's not funny!" all three women said in unison.
'Your new status has unlocked additional information about the two reviving subjects,' Asha informed him. 'Their bio-signatures are... unusual. One shows signs of extensive genetic modification. The other... Jin, the other one's neural patterns are synchronized with yours in ways that should be impossible.'
'What do you mean?' Jin thought back.
'I mean someone in that pod has been dreaming about you for over a century. And based on the brain activity spikes when your heart stops... she feels it. Across time and space and death itself, she felt you die.'
'That childhood memory you recalled? It wasn't random. She's here, Jin. The girl who promised to protect you is in one of those pods.'
Jin's blood ran cold. The promise. The girl in traditional clothes with perfect posture and terrible devotion. Someone who'd waited for him for over a century...
