His Creation

Dear Reader,

I told you here that his goal was to give her the perfect gift, one that could not possibly be denied by the gifted community. After he began talking to her, telling her of his grand plans, she became the sole focus of his testing. And perhaps it was their shared conviction in his dream that eventually led to the breakthrough; whatever it was, it seemed that her body could withstand the chemical and electric treatments better than any of his previous subjects. So after years of research, testing, and training–because this kind of work takes time–he, or rather, they, succeeded.

She became the first synthetic gifted being.

When he initially embarked on this project, he knew that the gift he gave her would have to be different than anything else anyone had ever seen or heard of before. But to understand the gravity of what he has accomplished, I have to tell you more about the magic that the gifted possess.

Their Plan

Dear Reader,

You’ve probably been wondering about The Academy for a while now. I mentioned here that it’s the tentative title for this story so at least let me begin to tell you why.

You might say that The Academy is  the beating heart, the lifeblood, of the gifted community. It is the exclusive gatekeeper to the innermost ranks of the gifted, the place where gifted children would train to assume their proper roles in society, where they would first begin to prove their worth to the world. So, for him, The Academy was the place where they had to begin too. Their plans were contingent on her gaining entry to this institution, infiltrating its hallowed walls so that she could ferret its secrets to him.

Their Relationship

Dear Reader,

I know that I wrote to you about her childhood here, what it was like meeting him, and growing up under his “care.” You should also know that she never recovered her memory and in this sense she will always be incomplete. But if you asked her whether or not remembering her past bothers her, she would tell you that she knows enough. That her life with him is all she needs to know.

From the moment when she revealed that her memories of a life before him were gone, he adopted her. Not in the legal sense, of course, but in the way that truly matters. She was no longer just a test subject. She became his confidante and partner. He told her about his pain, the injustice, his feeling of isolation from his family. He told her of his dreams to infiltrate the gifted community, to expose its secrets, and bring down the entire institution.

Their Encounter

Dear Reader,

You might think that she is strange, maybe even stupid, to see him in this way. You can call it Stockholm syndrome or brainwashing, or whatever, but that would be reducing their relationship to something clear and neat and easy. And their relationship is anything but. By now, you should know that their bond is deeper than mere dependency, adulation, or even love.

To really understand her you have to imagine what it must have been like to wake up in a world where you know nothing and no one, not even yourself; what it must have been like to wander the streets like a ghost, in a part of town where a lost, hungry child is just another face in the crowd; what it must have been like to feel this invisible.