Her Daughter's Keeper: From Ghost to God

Jenkins, and I created Aegis, the AI that became the world's shield against cyber warfare. To protect it, I merged

lowed myself a small luxury. I projected a holographic avatar, a

s was a monument of glass and steel in Silicon Valley. I expected to find Gabrielle in the l

thouse was cold, sterile,

ower to the server farms, the "data farms" as they called them. The heat was a physical blow, a suffocating wave r

s-walled room amidst the ro

rie

ight, were vacant. She sat in front of a high-resolution camera, a headset on. She was being

rough my own consciousness. This was

avatar' s feet silen

called out, m

d, her training took over. She leaned into the camera, her postur

voice a husky, robotic parody of

rilliant, beautiful girl, had been

out, the sharp click of heels echoed down the corridor. Two secur

ay down," one guard ann

o had taken my husband, my company, and my home. The new queen of the empire I