Davina Echo and the Last Threshold - by David Charles Kramer
Davina Echo and the Last Threshold I. Nothing Stays Nothing left a mark on Davina Echo. Not cuts. Not burns. Not broken bones. Not surgery. Not the time Dr. Orin Vale accidentally drove a prototype mobility platform through a laboratory wall while shouting, “The brakes are conceptual.” Within minutes or hours, depending on the damage, Davina repaired herself. Skin closed. Bone knitted. Synthetic nerves rerouted. Scar tissue formed, softened, and disappeared. Her body remembered everything just long enough to fix it. Then forgot. Vale considered this one of his greatest achievements. Davina considered it useful. She did not consider the difference important. Nobody could agree on exactly what Davina was. Vale called her the first indefinitely self-repairing synthetic-organic human platform . Professor Linda Wexler called that “twelve words desperately avoiding the word person .” The federal government called Davina Form 88-C: Other . The patent office called her an...