Prologue
I'd never given much thought on how my life would end-I should have had a good reason to since my family was killed by the Nyanza-but even now, I would have never guessed it would be like this.
I starred, breathless, across the long room of the laboratory, into the eyes of my godmother. She, in turn, looked calmly and pleasantly back at me. It was like she wasn't the one that cornered her godchild in her lab or the one who was going to experiment on me.
Surely it was a good time to try to run from here. Noble even. Running would count as noble but there was nowhere to run. I would easily out run her but she brought her robotic pets with her. I couldn't run or hide from them and obviously, she knew that.
I knew if I had the chance to return home, I wouldn't be in a lab facing experimentation. I would still be in my home town facing against the Nyanza. As frightened as I was, I knew that I didn't have a choice back then.
My old world was changing, dieing.
As it was being replaced by something new, the deceiver warmly smiled at me as she walked forward to get me.
I had no choice but to let it happen.