Their missions, Gabe’s betrayal, and what Jasper was planning to do. His memory didn’t feel like his own anymore. His AIA wasn’t responding—presumably killed by the EMP attack. Still, he felt ready to do what was necessary. He had children, and fragments of their lives and their time together lurked in the shadows of his mind, growing ever stronger, so that he now felt the loss of separation almost as strongly as his desire for revenge. Channelling that loss fuelled his motivation. His focus. He’d lost so much lately, and he would rather die trying to restore order and save his city, as false and unreal as it was, than stand back and watch a million innocent people suffer at the hands of a fundamentalist and an AI programmed for evil. That the Family were equally evil in their actions wasn’t the point anymore. He couldn’t undo the massive loss of life during the Cataclysm, and he couldn’t undo what the Family had done to the people living inside the Dome.
