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KAI THE 46 (THE PERSONAL MISSION 1)
KAIMom made dumplings on Sunday.Not from scratch the way she used to when we were younger, back when Sunday afternoons meant the whole apartment smelling like pork and ginger and the sound of her humming something without words while she worked the dough. She didn't have the energy for full scratch dumplings anymore.But she'd found frozen wrappers at the Korean grocery two blocks from the new apartment and she'd made the filling herself and she'd spent the afternoon at the kitchen table folding them one by one, slowly, sitting down, and that was close enough.The new kitchen helped. She'd said that once, quietly, when she didn't think I was listening. That it was easier to enjoy cooking again when the kitchen didn't make her feel like she was fighting it.I was on the couch when I arrived. Mira was at the kitchen table across from Mom, supposedly doing homework but actually watching whatever Mom was doing and offering opinions that hadn't been requested."That one's too thick on th
KAI THE 45 (THE NEW LIFE V)
KAI.The jaw healed on the system's timeline, not the doctor's. Seven hours, not three weeks. I knew it would. I went to the next booking anyway. I Won in the second round. Zhang was pleased. The crowd was pleased. I felt nothing except the clean mechanical satisfaction of a system performing exactly as designed.I filled the prescription anyway. Took the anti-inflammatory with food, like she'd said. Something real, not just coffee.I didn't go back to the clinic.I thought about it twice and both times went through the same calculation and both times arrived at the same answer and left it alone.The mission came on a Thursday morning.I was in the kitchen when the system pinged. Six AM. Grey light coming through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Coffee in my hand, actually eating breakfast for once, a piece of toast with peanut butter because Mira had called the night before and asked directly whether I was eating properly and I'd said yes and she'd said prove it, tell me what you had to
KAI THE REBORN 44 (THE NEW LIFE IV)
KAIShe didn't ask my name.That was the first thing I noticed. Every doctor I'd ever seen, real hospital or otherwise, started with the name. Basic intake. Who are you, what happened, let me pull up your file or create one. It was procedure. It was how you established that the person in front of you was a person and not just a collection of symptoms.She just pointed at the examination table and said, "Sit."I sat.She snapped on gloves. Pulled a light from the wall mount and clicked it on. Tilted my jaw with two fingers, clinical and efficient, turning my face toward the light. Her touch was firm. Not rough, just certain. The touch of someone who knew what they were doing and didn't need to be gentle about it to be good at it.She looked at my jaw for about fifteen seconds. Then she let go, turned away, and started opening drawers."You know it's fractured," she said. Not a question."I had a feeling.""Minor. No displacement." She laid instruments on the tray beside her without loo
KAI THE REBORN 43 (THE NEW LIFE)
KAI.She left.I locked the door. Went back to the window. I looked out at the city.The nothing held steady. Didn't even flicker.The paranoia started small.Little things. Noticing exits when I walked into rooms. Sitting with my back to walls in the rare moments I was somewhere public. Checking the street before I got into my car. Watching faces.I told myself it was the system. Predator's Instinct made me hyper-aware of threat patterns, it was just that bleeding into my daily life, nothing serious.But it got worse.I started changing routes. Never the same way twice between the same two places. I stopped going to the gym at the same time every day. I varied when I left the apartment, when I came back, which entrance I used.I stopped telling Ricky where I was. I had confessed to him and told him everything about the system, several months back after I killed the detective. That was the one that mattered. Because Ricky had been my anchor. The one person I'd told the truth to, or m
KAI THE REBORN 42 (THE NEW LIFE II)
KAII put the phone face down on the kitchen counter.Made coffee. Drank it standing up looking out the window at the city. Fourteen floors down, the street was doing its quiet evening thing. Dog walkers. A couple walking close together. A food delivery guy on a bike cutting through the intersection.The phone buzzed again.I know you probably don't want to hear from me. I understand if you're angry. I just need you to know that what happened with Chen was a mistake. The biggest mistake of my life. I was scared and selfish and I hurt you and I have thought about it every single day since.I read it twice.Turned the phone face down again.I finished my coffee. Washed the mug. Left it on the drying rack.The buzzing started again around nine. I didn't look. Just let it buzz. Went to bed. Lay in the dark of my very clean, very quiet, very empty bedroom and stared at the ceiling.She was going to come here. I could feel it the way you feel weather changing. Maya had never been good at ac
KAI THE REBORN 41 (THE NEW LIFE)
SEVERAL MONTHS LATER.KAIThe new apartment was on the fourteenth floor.Floor-to-ceiling windows. Open plan kitchen with appliances I didn't know how to use. A couch that cost more than my old monthly rent sitting in the middle of a living room that was clean and quiet and smelled like fresh paint and absolutely nothing else.I'd picked it because it was as far from the old place as money could get you while still being in the same city. Different neighbourhood. Different kind of street. The kind of block where people walked small dogs in the evening and the garbage was always collected on time and nobody had ever heard of underground fighting.I'd moved Mom and Mira in three weeks after Mom was discharged from the hospital, she was now better and out of coma.Mira had stood in the doorway of her new room — her own room, not a corner sectioned off with a curtain but an actual room with a door that closed — and she hadn't said anything for a long time. Just looked at it. The window wi
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