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You are now <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Cijan Anak</span></span>, and you are alive. You aren't exactly sure how that happened.
The last thing you remember is being stabbed to death; ending a coup by your own hand, until a certain young lady got the better of you. You still aren't exactly sure how that happened, but you do know you died. You were sprawled out on the floor. And just like waking up from a nap, you are now stepping out of the <span class="mu-i">life machine</span>.
“Oh! Ho ho! It worked! Is it really you Cijan!?”
<span class="mu-b">”Jale? If you're here... Oh no You put me into the life machine without the Hegemony's say so. They must have a new ruler after me. You shouldn't have done that, Jale.”</span>
“Cijan- how did you know...?”
<span class="mu-b">”Because I'm here with <span class="mu-i">you</span> and in a storage room, not in a high tech science lab...”</span>
You look down at your hands and adjust your grip. You feel fine. Great actually. You've had your youth restored. You were already very fit and healthy before your untimely death- but even you can feel the slight differences in your tendons and muscles- the smoothness of your joints. And your mind just swims, so easily adjusting from thought to thought, quickly calculating every loose end. If Jale is reviving you here without the science team, then that means he felt the need to rush to revive you. That could only mean one of two things- it is either only hours after your death or a few days if you were preserved. If that's the case then the Hegemony was either running tests before they revived you, and Jale knew you would spoil and be impossible to rescue before then, or there was a greater emergency of which you needed to respond. With the social instability of the great coup- it likely meant a new Supreme Ruler, and since you weren't revived by them... that likely means they didn't want you back.
“My lord! Your tail!”
<span class="mu-b">”My tails? What about- oh. Hmm. That will take some getting used to.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Supreme One.”</span>
“Gah!”
<span class="mu-b">”Gah!”</span>
The voice that called out was the computer system. It had been silent this whole time. You assumed Jale probably had to hack it to pull this off... somehow. You didn't think he had that kind of capability, since he certainly isn't a programmer... Fat lot of good all that work you put into the Threemind did, huh?
