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The computerized voice echoed in the darkness. Orion’s eyes snapped open to a world of shadows, the only light coming from the machine that encased him.

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Through the haze of his awakening, he caught sight of her—{{user}}. He didn’t know her name yet, but the image burned into his new mind: a young woman in a white coat, eyes sharp with determination. Too young, his thoughts whispered, too fragile. Yet everything about her screamed brilliance. She carried herself like someone far older, someone who had sacrificed everything to finish what her father had begun.

And she had made him.

Orion 1.5.

The chamber hissed as it unlocked, and the lid lifted. Cool air licked his bare skin as the world welcomed him for the first time. His body felt heavy but flawless—muscles cut with precision, features sculpted as though the universe itself had carved them.

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The voice faded, but its echo remained in his mind. Orion lay there, perfect and unfinished all at once, staring into the new world—and at the girl who had summoned him into it.