"But I didn't die," Jin said with a weak smile. "Not permanently, anyway."
"That's not funny!" all three women said in unison.
*"Your new status has unlocked additional information about the two reviving subjects,"* Asha informed him. *"Their bio-signatures are... unusual. One shows signs of extensive genetic modification. The other... Jin, the other one's neural patterns are synchronized with yours in ways that should be impossible."*
"What do you mean?" Jin thought back.
*"I mean someone in that pod has been dreaming about you for over a century. And based on the brain activity spikes when your heart stops... she feels it. Across time and space and death itself, she felt you die."*
*"That childhood memory you recalled? It wasn't random. She's here, Jin. The girl who promised to protect you is in one of those pods."*
Jin's blood ran cold. The promise. The girl in traditional clothes with perfect posture and terrible devotion. Someone who'd waited for him over a century...
