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"Who am I?"
"What is my purpose?"
"Why am I here?"
These were the first three questions that crossed their mind the moment they gained consciousness, floating inside a large glass tube filled with warm amniotic fluid.
At the tender age of two weeks, resembling nothing more than a fetus, they already possessed the awareness and intelligence of a twenty-year-old adult.
With a fully developed sense of self, they wondered what they were, who they were, and why they existed.
Powerless, they could only wait and grow, day after day.
Countless machines lined up the vast laboratory where they lived. People in white lab coats hurried from station to station, sometimes stopping to speak directly to them.
They remembered every word.
"Hello, child. How are you today? Recent scans show your brain is already developing, even though it's smaller than a pea! Incredible. Espers truly are the future of humanity. I can't wait to see how you grow."
