THE PAKHAN'S STOLEN OMEGA
Survived cancer.
She was fifty-six years old, fully human, probably had twenty or thirty years left if she was lucky. And she was going to make every single one of them count.
"I love you," she told them. "All three of you. For thirty-two years, for however many years I have left, forever. You saved me from being a weapon. Let me be a person. Gave me this impossible, beautiful life."
"We love you too," Alexei replied. "Always have. Always will. Cancer, old age, whatever comes—we face it together."