By listening to her heart, Suzy had opened an old can of worms, long buried in Kevin's past. Though she didn't want to risk her mother's reputation, she was tired of living this unbearable lie.
In the face of Kevin's questioning gaze, she let her walls crumble down. "You weren't always like this...so quiet, so simple-minded and carefree. Mom says you used to be really smart...a child prodigy of our generation," she breathed, hardly daring to look into Kevin's eyes.
Though Kevin had already figured out this part from his recurring dreams about his past, he let Suzy continue uninterrupted.
"You were just nine when they brought you to our school, Eon Academy, a place for the brightest students in all of Technoria."
"Who brought me?" Kevin asked. The details were a bit blurry in his mind.
