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6/24/19

Narrative Draft

The Daughter of Eden

“It’s alive, it’s alive” the performer exclaimed as he pulled the lever to activate the monster. Monster starts thumping around and breaking all the equipment with its large filthy hands. All the actors run away and the simulation ends when a burst of distant laughter grows near. “Heh lowlives, you think that is life? Or fantasy? Oh, how I wish I could see their faces when they see this.” a woman in half button up lab coat and remarks as she turns to look at a covered up preservation tank. She flicks her half lite e-cigarette and signs as she shuts off her study. As she drifts off a cool calm gust blows through an open window, which causes the drape to flutter. It reveals the rim of an empty tank with a titanium plaque: “Aptrova “Eve” Curie N0.XXX-07”.

“Lachia? Lachia?” A Portal calls from the far side of the room.

“Ughh what? What is so urgent that I miss sleep and at 3:00 am no less” The woman says as she drags herself out of her stasis vat.

“Eve she… she's missing” her assistant calls out worryingly.

“What? No, you’ve got… “ She remarks as she pulls the drape.

“Oh no, just when I thought this version was full proof” She collapses and screams in pain with one hand slipping from the tank. All of her memories flood in as she starts to destroy her work leading up to this point. Her assistant tries to cheer her up by showing her all the accomplishments of her work but nothing would suffice.

First holo video: September 23, 2023; Yorkshire Café___ A news Anchor with images of a potato with the headline “The new face of God” was broadcasted iridescently over the cityscape. While the people collectively roll their eyes and scoff, a much younger Lachia admires it in glee. Next to her is Claudia who almost spits out her tea with googly eyes. “What are you? Afraid? this is my calling! Its what leads to man's accomplishments to galactic recognition.”

“But, BUT Lacy you know their right and what this leads to?...”

“Sure, sure autonomy but we are their creator we.. you know what you're too cynical”

“Cynical? Cynical‽ have you not heard of AI, terminator, ex machina, Her?”

“Oh those, those are just fiction like they ever..” A robot rolls over to pick up their trays.

“Thank you,” Lachia says with a nervous laugh; Claudia sighs and pets her head as she hums “Caged bird”.

Meanwhile back at the lab, “ Cathy oh Cathy come back, I feel like a kid again; you were right all along.” Lachia mutters as she watches the memories go into the trash. She stops for a moment “Maybe I should just give up, or at least take a ‘holiday’” she sighs and drags herself outside and towards her old county. “Huh?“ she exclaims sometime later in front of the café “It’s still here? ‘No matter how far away from home is always near’” A tear drift down as she swipes to next video in her holotablet.

November 2nd, 2023 Charleston, NY-

Frantic typing could be heard from a dimly lit room on the far east side of the tristate area. “ Whatcha doing?” Claudia asked as she lends over Lachia’s shoulder.

“Oh, just signing up for labs. What about this one?” Lachia points to a webpage with a forest background ‘Eden: a new beginning”’

“Lacy, aren't you forgetting something?” '

'What?” “Nevermind, you know it requires you to have experience right?”

“ What? Is assisting not enough... You don't think i can do it do you?

“ No, I'm just being realistic” Claudia flicks to her own choice

“ Synthetica: a critical take on playing God” Lachia scoffs

“What's that another psych lab?”

“So what if it is at least I can foreseeably achieve my future…” “OUT OUT.”

“fine.” Claudia leaves and Lachia breaks her necklace in anger.

Lachia holds out the broken necklace as she goes to the center of the city. She passes by digital posters of Apotrova each more disfigured than the next.

“ No this doesn’t add up she couldn’t have been gone for this long” Suddenly, her necklace beings to ring

“ wait April? April? Aptrova?” Lachia calls out as the signal leads her to the tallest building in the city.

“ isn't this Central park tower? If so it's all barren. Of all places, why would she be her?” Lachia mutters as she moves on to the next video.

August 2025

A virtual letter lands on the balcony of the house one summer evening. Lachia picks it up and gasps “no way, I proved her wrong ?! sure it took two years but I knew I could count on it.” In the honor of her getting to the facility her family went to Central park tower. Lachia stood there in awe and wished that one day she could be working in that building. As they rode in the glass elevator she marveled more and more in how small the city looked under her. Meanwhile unbenounced to Lachia, Claudia was standing at the door of the elevator in fear not only to heights but also of how some it made her feel. At the 39th floor, Lachia went to the gift shop and got a snow globe to encapsle how much power she felt.

“ Dr? Dr?” the assistant calls out while looking over at the snow globe.

“She's been gone all morning and i'm worried that her work has gotten to her. I better call Claudia.”

The assistant calls Claudia by patching it through the snowglobe. The snowglobe works like a satellite and can work as a hub contact center. As Claudia’s phone rings, Lachia keeping climbing up the tower leading to the top floor. Claudia answers the phone and runs toward the rim of the town with her necklace tracker. “Only two more videos to go but cant i delete them”.

A tank can be seen on the far edge of Lachia’s lab with the label of EVE. “hmm i should be close to at least make a child but” Inside the tankis blob that barely has any resemble of any animal never to mention a human.

“How? We've mapped the genome of the human and all i did was done a bit of my hair for stem cells.” “What i am I missing?” she exclaims while going through tons of books and sites. Her assistant dust and clean the area in order to make sure there are no particles that has interfered with the experiment. “Think of what makes animals different from bacteria other than their complection.”suggests her assistant.

“Wait I've been focusing too much on the small building blocks not what they create together”

“yeah like tissues, system organs wait a heart”

“what do you mean?” “ in addition to structures they also make it possible to have feelings”

“That's it I’ve relayed too much biology that I haven’t realised what makes us unique. But Claudia is the only one I know who studies this stuff” she sighs as she glances at the tank.

“Oh how stupid I was back then to think that biology was a stand alone and most powerful of the sciences” Lachia shakes her head as she looks down form the top of the building mulling over her choices. She signs as she looks at the last memory and tries to delete it, but then she sees something at the corner of her eye, a light purple and black bow. She takes the bow as she moves to the last video.

2040

“One last touch” Lachia puts the bow on the latest verizon of EVE -XXXX07 and opens the clapsue. “Success” Eve starts to walk around the lab as Lachia and her assistants creates tests to make sure that she's fool proof.

“Movement check, organs check, simple problem solving check,emotions check, language” the assistants muttered as she performs each task with flying colors year after year. “Speak eve” commands Lachia.

*muffed robotic noises* “h___i” “hmm that's strange I made sure that none of the parts are robotic especially the vocal cords” She says as she tries to find out what's wrong. Eves vocal cords can be seen under an advanced x-ray machine and along with the other components of speech. The team zooms in to see blobs around those areas but aren’t sure why the voice is robotic.

The last year : “ahh” Eve swallows a microsurgeon pill and as it works the assistants double check. After a few minutes the pustules decrease and they prepare to test speech again. “Say your name”

“ev_Apotrova”

“ wait what? You named your self?” Apotrova nods.

“Let her play outside i'm going to think over some things” As Aptrova goes outside Lachia puts on Leaving while she silently cries.

Lachia looks over the city as she feels for the tracker in the ribbon. “Where ever she is hopefully she doesn't go over the gate or I could be in for some real trouble.” Meanwhile Claudia peeks through the gate and hears a distant screams. She rushes inside the gate calls out Aptrova as Lachia is on the absolute edge of the skyscraper.

Lost in waste lands Aptrova is horrified at what she sees: tons of decaying tanks stacked haphazardly in cold barren ground. This ground goes as far down as the eye can see without a sign of civilization. Aprtova shivers as she thinks back to all the warnings Lachia gave her about this place. How it is constantly dry but right at the back of the lab with a rundown and uneven fence surrounding the perimeter. Although there is no civilization there are ruined houses littered throughout the area. And sploses of slime and gunge can be seen everywhere. However Aptrova couldn't help herself from wondering if these stories were true, so at the dead of night of her eighth birthday she fled. Unbenounced to everyone, the fence at that sector which was usually highly secured was broken. Which made her journey seen easier than she ever thought. However as she traveled deeper and deeper the cloud fade away to reveal on the stars of the night. At the deepest point stood a house unlike any other, it was complete and full of life. Aptrova was relieved to see this, she went in unexpectedly of what's to come. As she went to prepare to stay for the night a distant squelch could be heard from the corner of the room.

When she opened the fridge all she could see was slime with a putrid smell that almost made her gag. As she closes the fridge she started to realize that she wasn’t alone as slime kept popping up wherever she searched. She knew that she wasn’t the first to escape and just as she thought of this a distant voice can be heard.

“Help squelch help squelch ” Aptrova starts to run but she goes near to the voice and sees a slime made up of many faces and bodies. It is sloshing around and it seemed to be building something. She looked up and there was a leak in the house

“oh my who would do such a thing?, sure it's not the most applying or most intelligent but its still alive.” she thought.Then it came to her, all the memories of abuse by the city folk whenever Lachia brought her there. They would laugh throw food and tease her but Lachia would always take the blows. Horrified she runs straight for the closest exit from the house which is just outside of Synthetica. As she leaves a teared up sign hanging in the wind read “Home of Eve” which matched the empty tanks left in the dump.

Aptrova arrives at the end of the path in a hot sweat and healthy breathing while looking back every few seconds. She tries to find a place to hide and soon realizes how viverant her surroundings. Lush forest and gleaming lakes and abundant with wildlife with some rusted manmade objects.

“Oh my where am I this is so beautiful, I could just live here” she thought as she went towards the lake humming Sandbox.

Some time after, a high pitched scream can be heard from the forest as Claudia enter the forest. As she ran closer and closer to the river it picks up and there were alligators biting at Aptrova. “Give me your hand” she called out as she drags Aptrova out of the water and towards the gate. Aptrova shuts down and doses off as they arrive at the door of Synthetica. Claudia lays April down when the sirens went off as news flashes of a woman scaling the tallest building in the city.

“Oh my word LACY?! What have I done?” Claudia rushes on to her hover bike and speeds off the tower.

Meanwhile her assistants try their best to fix Aptrova as silently as they can. Most of her skin is gnawed away to reveal a carbon fiber skeleton and some body parts but most of her organs and appendages seem intact. The pleasant humming of the tools fade as Claudia draw near.

At the center of the city, Lachia stood at the spock of the skyscraper looking down at the last to memories of her holotablet. “Hope im not..” Claudia thought worryingly as she looks up while the crowd collectively call for help. Lachia dives headfirst down the building straight on to the mattress between a sea of people with motor bikes with uniforms. As she lands Claudia rides up and tries to calm her down signing Caged bird. As the crowd starts to disparce,

“ Claudia? Oh how I’ve missed you” Lachia embraces her hard as they both teared up at the foot of the mattress.

A few weeks later, Lachia and Claudia meet up in Yorkshire cafe and Claudia has a surprise for her. “How about now?” April whispered.

“Yes come in we have a little something for you too.”Claudia whispers look over at her at the corner of her eye. As April walks in Lachia lights up and all of her assistants go fanfare.

“We are reopening the Cafe and I want you to live as a normal girl and not an experiment.” The scientists say with glee and the three of them go on a tour of it. Pointing out all the items that Lachia kept to make it encapsulate there legacy.

“Thank you thank you… but I have two questions: How does Claudia know me and may I leave?”. As Aprotrova blurt out those words Lachia slienty nods and stands up to go behind the counter. She pulls out a secret stash of letters which were all sent to Claudia. As Aptrova leaves the woman open up shop and customers flocking in while they smile in pure bliss.

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