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- “The enhancements Professor Sorensen gave us out at Project Krypton. They’ve been fading for months. Decreasing. However you want to put it.”
- Danielle looked at the tall sergeant. “How? I thought he changed you genetically.”
- Kennedy shook her head. “He warned us this could happen. Over time, our brains could make new pathways, relearn how to play it safe again.”
- …
- “These were intended to be active combat enhancements,” Kennedy explained. “Soldiers would get them and go into a combat zone for eighteen months or two years or whatever their deployment was. Being in-country, being on constant alert, would keep everything going. Our bodies and brains would keep running on the levels he set them at.
- …Once we had the Big Wall built, the threat level dropped. Once Legion vanished, it plunged. We’ve been doing busywork for almost a year now. Every now and then one or two of us might go out on a scavenging run. We can exercise tons, but our day-to-day activity is…well, normal. And our bodies have been readjusting.”
- Excerpt From Ex-Isle, pg 515-516
- Peter Clines
- https://books.apple.com/us/book/ex-isle/id989619017
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