Mira's POV

Kessen stood at the Vault's edge. He hadn't stepped inside. Not once. He watched us extract the truth. I nodded, staring at his face. It looked like he was trying to remember something." Kael asked, "What is he remembering that we haven't seen?"

Cyrus replied, "The parts they didn't record. The parts they didn’t need to." I walked to Kessen. He didn’t move. I said, "You're not a ghost anymore." He said, "I was never alive here." I asked, "Then what were you?"

"The prototype ...