The Surrogate’s Blade
My face, my jaw, the small asymmetry at the left eye my mother had, grown in a tank at the bottom of the sea from the blood they took, standing in fluid with my own features arranged in a stillness I have never worn, waiting, finished, ready to be woken.
A thin line of grease marks his cuff where he had to force a panel open. For some reason that detail frightens me more than the map. Damian Morton is not supposed to leave fingerprints on hidden doors.
A dozen of them down the row, and the first one wears my face, and somewhere behind the glass of the feed, like it can feel the original looking, the thing that has my face opens its eyes a little wider and turns its head, slowly, toward the c
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