เรื่อง APAIMANEE 2086

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family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Early 2063, family: 'cs_prajad1'">after the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport attack.

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family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad2'">When Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad1'">came to, he saw family: 'cs_prajad2'">blood everywfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here. It took him a family: 'cs_prajad2'">moment to family: 'cs_prajad1'">register that it was his own family: 'cs_prajad2'">blood on the ground.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He was lying family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">face-family: 'cs_prajad1'">down in family: 'cs_prajad1'">front of a family: 'cs_prajad1'">Thai family: 'cs_prajad1'">restaurant that family: 'cs_prajad2'">only tourists family: 'cs_prajad1'">craving their family: 'cs_prajad1'">last family: 'cs_prajad1'">Thai food family: 'cs_prajad1'">meal in family: 'cs_prajad1'">Thailand family: 'cs_prajad1'">would visit. The family: 'cs_prajad1'">restaurant was blown to family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">bits, scattering family: 'cs_prajad1'">bits of orange family: 'cs_prajad2'">paint everywfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here. To his family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">right, a man family: 'cs_prajad2'">laid dead two gunshot family: 'cs_prajad2'">wounds.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">It was family: 'cs_prajad2'">eerily quiet, as if he was the family: 'cs_prajad2'">only one left family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He tried to get up, but found that his family: 'cs_prajad2'">right hand was no longer family: 'cs_prajad1'">tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here. He tried to family: 'cs_prajad2'">remember what family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">happened, but was met family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a splitting family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">headache.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He stopped family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">thinking. His family: 'cs_prajad2'">body was numb. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could feel no family: 'cs_prajad1'">pain, or family: 'cs_prajad1'">perhaps the pain was too much and his brain family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave up on family: 'cs_prajad2'">processing it.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The young man family: 'cs_prajad1'">laughed. He was so family: 'cs_prajad1'">close to getting to family: 'cs_prajad1'">Neo-Tokyo. He wondered if his family: 'cs_prajad2'">ffamily: 'cs_prajad2'">light had family: 'cs_prajad2'">already left, and family: 'cs_prajad2'">whether he family: 'cs_prajad1'">would have to family: 'cs_prajad2'">re-learn how to family: 'cs_prajad2'">play a guitar family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a family: 'cs_prajad1'">prosthetic hand.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could family: 'cs_prajad1'">register the family: 'cs_prajad2'">sound of footsteps family: 'cs_prajad2'">approaching. He hoped it was a family: 'cs_prajad1'">medic. It was not.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">His family: 'cs_prajad2'">body was flipped family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">over, and family: 'cs_prajad2'">lights the family: 'cs_prajad1'">ceiling irritated his family: 'cs_prajad1'">eyes.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“At family: 'cs_prajad1'">least one family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive. Good family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">enough.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could not see the person’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">face clearly, but he family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew it was a woman family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad1'">curly family: 'cs_prajad1'">hair.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I better get you out of family: 'cs_prajad2'">here before family: 'cs_prajad2'">they come for a double-check of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">bodies.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad1'">blacked out.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad2'">When he family: 'cs_prajad1'">came to, he found family: 'cs_prajad2'">himself in a cold family: 'cs_prajad2'">room family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a thick family: 'cs_prajad1'">blanket draped family: 'cs_prajad2'">over his family: 'cs_prajad2'">body. The family: 'cs_prajad1'">ceiling family: 'cs_prajad2'">above him was white. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could family: 'cs_prajad2'">smell disinfectants.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He tried family: 'cs_prajad1'">moving his family: 'cs_prajad2'">right arm, and was family: 'cs_prajad1'">surprised that tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here was a hand family: 'cs_prajad2'">attached to it. The young man got up, but was family: 'cs_prajad1'">dizzy for a family: 'cs_prajad2'">moment before he family: 'cs_prajad1'">could get a good family: 'cs_prajad2'">look at family: 'cs_prajad2'">himself.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">His four family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs were all replaced family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad1'">prosthetics, and he had neat family: 'cs_prajad2'">stitches on his family: 'cs_prajad2'">body. Tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here was an alarm family: 'cs_prajad2'">above his family: 'cs_prajad1'">head that blinked family: 'cs_prajad1'">red. He wondered if he should family: 'cs_prajad2'">turn it off, but family: 'cs_prajad2'">then someone family: 'cs_prajad2'">entered the family: 'cs_prajad2'">room.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Good morning.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">It was the family: 'cs_prajad2'">same woman the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport. She was beautiful, family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad1'">lustrous black family: 'cs_prajad1'">hair and pearly family: 'cs_prajad2'">skin.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here…?” family: 'cs_prajad1'">That was all Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad1'">could muster before family: 'cs_prajad2'">breaking out into a family: 'cs_prajad1'">violent cough. The woman fed him some family: 'cs_prajad1'">water. “Wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here am I? family: 'cs_prajad2'">What family: 'cs_prajad2'">happened?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">need to ask some family: 'cs_prajad2'">questions before I family: 'cs_prajad1'">answer any of family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">yours. Do you family: 'cs_prajad1'">still family: 'cs_prajad2'">remember who you family: 'cs_prajad2'">are? Your own family: 'cs_prajad1'">name?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yes, of family: 'cs_prajad2'">course I do.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What is family: 'cs_prajad1'">it?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Apaimanee. I was family: 'cs_prajad1'">headed to Neo-Tokyo family: 'cs_prajad1'">before… And wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here did my arms…?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad1'">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s a long family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">story. You should eat somefamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad2'">light and probably go to the bathfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">room before I family: 'cs_prajad2'">start talking.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">It was his family: 'cs_prajad2'">first time family: 'cs_prajad2'">peeing into a collection family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">bottle. At family: 'cs_prajad1'">least he family: 'cs_prajad1'">operated his new family: 'cs_prajad1'">hands well family: 'cs_prajad2'">enough that he did not spill. family: 'cs_prajad2'">When he was done, the woman took the family: 'cs_prajad2'">bottle away, family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave him some family: 'cs_prajad2'">more liquid, family: 'cs_prajad2'">then family: 'cs_prajad2'">started talking.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“The family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">been raided and family: 'cs_prajad2'">taken family: 'cs_prajad2'">over. family: 'cs_prajad2'">When I saw that you were family: 'cs_prajad1'">still family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive, I took you out of family: 'cs_prajad1'">tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You saved my family: 'cs_prajad1'">life, basically.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yes, but somefamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body else family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave you a family: 'cs_prajad1'">transfusion, connected all family: 'cs_prajad2'">these prosfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">theses, and replaced family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">skin. My job is to make family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure everyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad1'">functions, get you used to family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">them, family: 'cs_prajad1'">things family: 'cs_prajad2'">like that. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Anyway, it’s a family: 'cs_prajad1'">miracle you made it out family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Thank family: 'cs_prajad1'">you, but what about the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport? And which family: 'cs_prajad1'">organization do you family: 'cs_prajad1'">belong to?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“As I family: 'cs_prajad2'">said, the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">been family: 'cs_prajad2'">taken family: 'cs_prajad2'">over. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t tell you who I family: 'cs_prajad2'">work for yet, but family: 'cs_prajad1'">rest asfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">sured that family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m not family: 'cs_prajad1'">with those family: 'cs_prajad1'">people that hurt family: 'cs_prajad1'">you.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What were you doing tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You ask a lot of family: 'cs_prajad2'">questions, do you? Alfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">right, I was tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here to spy on the family: 'cs_prajad1'">bombers and assess their family: 'cs_prajad1'">strategic prowess. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Happy? Now family: 'cs_prajad1'">let’s talk about family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee was family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure he family: 'cs_prajad2'">only lost an arm, but family: 'cs_prajad1'">apparently all his family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs were damaged and had to be replaced. family: 'cs_prajad2'">They did not hurt as much as he thought it family: 'cs_prajad1'">would, but it was family: 'cs_prajad1'">still hard family: 'cs_prajad2'">work to make family: 'cs_prajad2'">them move.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Can I contact my family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other?” The young man asked.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Not yet. Not until family: 'cs_prajad1'">you’re completely family: 'cs_prajad2'">safe. And if family: 'cs_prajad1'">you’re wondering, I did not see a family: 'cs_prajad2'">phone on you when I took you out of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Alarms family: 'cs_prajad1'">went off in his family: 'cs_prajad1'">head. He gulped and did not say a word family: 'cs_prajad1'">after family: 'cs_prajad2'">that, even when his profamily: 'cs_prajad2'">theses family: 'cs_prajad2'">started to hurt. The woman family: 'cs_prajad2'">seemed to notice his family: 'cs_prajad1'">wariness and family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave him a weak family: 'cs_prajad1'">smile.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I know is all hard to family: 'cs_prajad2'">process.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">need to let my family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other know family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The woman did not say anyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad1'">else. She left the family: 'cs_prajad2'">room, family: 'cs_prajad2'">then family: 'cs_prajad1'">came family: 'cs_prajad1'">back family: 'cs_prajad1'">with soft food and family: 'cs_prajad2'">more family: 'cs_prajad1'">water.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She never family: 'cs_prajad1'">answered when he asked what her name family: 'cs_prajad1'">was, so Apaimanee resorted to family: 'cs_prajad1'">calling her ma’am or big sis.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He family: 'cs_prajad2'">spent hours family: 'cs_prajad1'">sleeping, and he did not know how much time passed before he thought of family: 'cs_prajad1'">asking wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here his arms and family: 'cs_prajad1'">legs family: 'cs_prajad1'">went.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“By time, I family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">think family: 'cs_prajad2'">they’re family: 'cs_prajad2'">already family: 'cs_prajad1'">medical waste.” She family: 'cs_prajad2'">replied.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee suddenly family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt family: 'cs_prajad2'">like a part of his family: 'cs_prajad1'">heart had family: 'cs_prajad2'">been gouged out and family: 'cs_prajad1'">scattered, never to come family: 'cs_prajad1'">back again.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad1'">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s alfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">right, though. family: 'cs_prajad1'">You’ll do fine family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad2'">your prosfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">theses. See, I family: 'cs_prajad1'">went family: 'cs_prajad2'">through cybernetic family: 'cs_prajad1'">enhancements myself.” She family: 'cs_prajad1'">rolled up her sleeves, and he family: 'cs_prajad1'">could see family: 'cs_prajad1'">thin lines wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here the family: 'cs_prajad1'">enhancements met her family: 'cs_prajad1'">natural flesh. family: 'cs_prajad1'">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s always family: 'cs_prajad1'">difficult at family: 'cs_prajad2'">first, but family: 'cs_prajad2'">eventually you’ll get used to it. family: 'cs_prajad1'">You’ll family: 'cs_prajad1'">walk again.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Will I family: 'cs_prajad1'">still be able to family: 'cs_prajad2'">play the family: 'cs_prajad1'">guitar?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“It family: 'cs_prajad2'">will require family: 'cs_prajad2'">practice and perseverance, not family: 'cs_prajad2'">going to lie. But you family: 'cs_prajad2'">will family: 'cs_prajad2'">play the guitar again.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee stared at his arms and family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt a family: 'cs_prajad1'">strong sense of family: 'cs_prajad1'">discomfort, as if staring at somefamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body family: 'cs_prajad2'">else’s arms. Or maybe it was the family: 'cs_prajad2'">sensation of being family: 'cs_prajad1'">stuck in somefamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body family: 'cs_prajad2'">else’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">body.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Can you at family: 'cs_prajad1'">least explain what family: 'cs_prajad2'">happened during the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport family: 'cs_prajad1'">attack?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She told him that a family: 'cs_prajad2'">bunch of mafias family: 'cs_prajad2'">posed as staff family: 'cs_prajad2'">members, hijacked the family: 'cs_prajad1'">caretaker droids, and family: 'cs_prajad2'">carried out the attack. It was probably aimed at the family: 'cs_prajad1'">ministers boarding the Neo-Tokyo family: 'cs_prajad2'">ffamily: 'cs_prajad2'">light.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The young woman held his hand in family: 'cs_prajad2'">hers and stroked him family: 'cs_prajad2'">palm. Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad1'">could feel the touch on his family: 'cs_prajad2'">artificial flesh. His family: 'cs_prajad1'">heart fluttefamily: 'cs_prajad1'">red.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">It was probably at that family: 'cs_prajad2'">moment that he thought it was alfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">right to not see his arms ever again. As she family: 'cs_prajad2'">said, family: 'cs_prajad2'">they were family: 'cs_prajad2'">already family: 'cs_prajad1'">medical family: 'cs_prajad2'">waste, and he family: 'cs_prajad1'">would feel even worse family: 'cs_prajad2'">seeing family: 'cs_prajad2'">them.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She told him the family: 'cs_prajad1'">story of how she got her family: 'cs_prajad1'">enhancements. She was family: 'cs_prajad2'">twelve at the time, and was used as a tool for family: 'cs_prajad1'">money laundering. family: 'cs_prajad2'">When she found out that she was being family: 'cs_prajad1'">used, she tried to ask for help, but family: 'cs_prajad1'">ended up getting silenced. Her mentor took the family: 'cs_prajad1'">dying girl in and family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave her cybernetic family: 'cs_prajad1'">enhancements, and that family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave her a new life family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a new family: 'cs_prajad1'">identity.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Do you family: 'cs_prajad1'">still see family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">mentor?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Oh, family: 'cs_prajad1'">he’s dead.” She family: 'cs_prajad2'">said family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a hint of family: 'cs_prajad1'">joyful pride, which Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad2'">failed to notice because he was too family: 'cs_prajad1'">preoccupied family: 'cs_prajad1'">with the pain creeping up his family: 'cs_prajad1'">legs.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He lived in a family: 'cs_prajad2'">room family: 'cs_prajad1'">without s or any family: 'cs_prajad1'">other forms of family: 'cs_prajad2'">entertainment, and yet family: 'cs_prajad2'">maintained his sanity. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">conversed family: 'cs_prajad2'">only family: 'cs_prajad1'">with the young woman who refused to tell him her family: 'cs_prajad2'">name. family: 'cs_prajad2'">When he began his family: 'cs_prajad1'">physical therapy, he was family: 'cs_prajad2'">taken to anfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other family: 'cs_prajad2'">room.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The place was not an family: 'cs_prajad2'">underground dungeon, but an family: 'cs_prajad2'">apartment for rent. The family: 'cs_prajad2'">room was family: 'cs_prajad2'">exceptionally large, so he family: 'cs_prajad2'">guessed it was one of those old family: 'cs_prajad2'">apartment family: 'cs_prajad2'">buildings when Bangkok was not so family: 'cs_prajad1'">crowded. It had a kitchen, a family: 'cs_prajad1'">balcony, three bedfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">rooms (one of which was family: 'cs_prajad2'">his), two bathfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">rooms, and a family: 'cs_prajad1'">living family: 'cs_prajad2'">room. She was the family: 'cs_prajad2'">only family: 'cs_prajad1'">other person family: 'cs_prajad1'">living family: 'cs_prajad2'">here.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The balcony family: 'cs_prajad2'">overfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">looked a small family: 'cs_prajad2'">run-family: 'cs_prajad1'">down badminton family: 'cs_prajad2'">court. Beyond the family: 'cs_prajad2'">bounds of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">apartment complex was the family: 'cs_prajad2'">road, crowded family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad2'">wires and hand-written family: 'cs_prajad2'">advertisement signs.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad2'">focused on gaining family: 'cs_prajad2'">control family: 'cs_prajad2'">over his prosfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">theses for a family: 'cs_prajad1'">week. He was able to do simple family: 'cs_prajad2'">household chores.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Do you have a family: 'cs_prajad2'">screen I can family: 'cs_prajad1'">borrow? I want to see how a touch family: 'cs_prajad2'">screen family: 'cs_prajad1'">reacts to my fingers.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">don’t have any.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The young man was family: 'cs_prajad1'">stunned into silence family: 'cs_prajad1'">with her simple family: 'cs_prajad1'">answer.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I saw you using family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">phone.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yes, but I family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t hand it family: 'cs_prajad2'">over to you. family: 'cs_prajad2'">Work protocols.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I’ve never seen you family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave place… family: 'cs_prajad2'">What family: 'cs_prajad2'">exactly is family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">work?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m about to family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave.” She family: 'cs_prajad2'">said, family: 'cs_prajad2'">dodging the question. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“My job is to watch family: 'cs_prajad2'">over you until all is family: 'cs_prajad2'">safe, and now that everyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing’s settled family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">down, I have a new job coming family: 'cs_prajad2'">up.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Uh-huh. So, when can I see my family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">When I know that the family: 'cs_prajad1'">people family: 'cs_prajad1'">targeting you have family: 'cs_prajad2'">been dealt family: 'cs_prajad1'">with.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You family: 'cs_prajad2'">said family: 'cs_prajad2'">they were family: 'cs_prajad1'">targeting the family: 'cs_prajad1'">ministers.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">That’s because I didn’t know who you family: 'cs_prajad2'">were, Apai.” She family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">sighed. “If I had family: 'cs_prajad2'">known family: 'cs_prajad1'">you’re that family, family: 'cs_prajad2'">well...”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You’re not family: 'cs_prajad2'">making any sense!”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Do you want to go family: 'cs_prajad2'">home?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Not really. family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s suffocating in that family: 'cs_prajad1'">house. But my family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other! I family: 'cs_prajad1'">need to see him and let him know family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad1'">still family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The young woman family: 'cs_prajad2'">sighed and sat family: 'cs_prajad1'">down on the couch, family: 'cs_prajad1'">patting the space family: 'cs_prajad1'">beside her. Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad2'">calmed family: 'cs_prajad2'">himself before sitting family: 'cs_prajad1'">down. He family: 'cs_prajad2'">liked her. She was family: 'cs_prajad2'">nice to him, family: 'cs_prajad1'">albeit being too mysterious.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I know it’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">frustrating to be in the dark. family: 'cs_prajad2'">Here is the family: 'cs_prajad1'">thing: family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad2'">looking into those involved family: 'cs_prajad1'">with the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport family: 'cs_prajad2'">attack, and although family: 'cs_prajad2'">they’re made up of a family: 'cs_prajad2'">rag-tag family: 'cs_prajad2'">bunch of family: 'cs_prajad1'">people family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a gazillion family: 'cs_prajad2'">different agendas to family: 'cs_prajad1'">push, it’s certain family: 'cs_prajad2'">they’re family: 'cs_prajad1'">targeting the family: 'cs_prajad2'">current regime and those involved family: 'cs_prajad1'">with it. family: 'cs_prajad2'">Including family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“So, you family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew. But if family: 'cs_prajad2'">they’re family: 'cs_prajad1'">after my family, family: 'cs_prajad2'">then my family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other family: 'cs_prajad1'">isn’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">safe.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">think it’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">best you family: 'cs_prajad1'">don’t family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave. family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’d be devastated if anyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad2'">happened to you en route. Your family have the family: 'cs_prajad1'">money and resources to protect family: 'cs_prajad2'">themselves.” She touched his cheeks gently. Her eyes glittefamily: 'cs_prajad1'">red. His family: 'cs_prajad1'">heart pounded in his chest, and his cheeks grew hot.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Yet, he slapped her hand away. The young woman did nofamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing in response, her charming, gentle smile not wavering in the sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">lightest.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad1'">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">frustrating, I know. But, family: 'cs_prajad1'">would you do it for me, and for family: 'cs_prajad2'">yourself, and for family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">brfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">other waiting for family: 'cs_prajad2'">your safe refamily: 'cs_prajad2'">turn?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad2'">going to family: 'cs_prajad1'">need family: 'cs_prajad2'">more explanations than the one you family: 'cs_prajad2'">gave me.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Well.” She family: 'cs_prajad1'">went family: 'cs_prajad2'">over to the speakers in the wall and family: 'cs_prajad2'">played some music. It was some kind of traditional folk song one family: 'cs_prajad1'">could hear in places family: 'cs_prajad2'">like a spa or massage parlors. “I family: 'cs_prajad1'">don’t have much else to disfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">close. How about I teach you all the neat tricks you can do family: 'cs_prajad1'">with family: 'cs_prajad2'">your new family: 'cs_prajad2'">body parts?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apparently, Apaimanee now had extendable fingers, among family: 'cs_prajad1'">other cool family: 'cs_prajad1'">things his family: 'cs_prajad2'">artificial arms family: 'cs_prajad1'">could do.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Who paid for family: 'cs_prajad2'">these?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“My boss. I wanted to save you and he helped, family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">thinking that we family: 'cs_prajad1'">could ask what you family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew about the family: 'cs_prajad2'">attack, but you’ve family: 'cs_prajad2'">been out for too long. We family: 'cs_prajad2'">already figured family: 'cs_prajad1'">things out by family: 'cs_prajad2'">then.” She sipped on a family: 'cs_prajad2'">bottle of vitamin family: 'cs_prajad1'">water. “By the way, how is family: 'cs_prajad2'">your sense of touch? My family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs are insensitive to family: 'cs_prajad1'">pain, but family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure family: 'cs_prajad2'">yours are sensitive to all kinds of touch.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I haven’t paid attention.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I see.” She handed him a can of fruit juice. “How’s the can? Cold?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yeah, it’s cold.” After some struggling, he managed to open it. “Wait, is soju.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yes, peach soju. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">only stock up on alcohols.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee shrugged and family: 'cs_prajad1'">downed the soju. He coughed, the alcohol stinging his throat despite how family: 'cs_prajad2'">light it was.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“So, what’s that family: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad1'">you’re drinking?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Tap family: 'cs_prajad1'">water. family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m just reusing the family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">bottle.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She wanted to drink some soju family: 'cs_prajad2'">herself, so family: 'cs_prajad2'">they family: 'cs_prajad1'">ended up sharing a few cans of family: 'cs_prajad2'">different flavors. Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt family: 'cs_prajad2'">light-family: 'cs_prajad1'">headed all the drinking, but she family: 'cs_prajad1'">could really handle her liquor. Her family: 'cs_prajad1'">face was flushed, but she made no sign of stopping.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Do you have a girlfriend? Boyfriend? Friend?” She asked.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“No. family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m into girls but family: 'cs_prajad2'">they aren’t into me.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Pfft.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What’s so funny?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“No, it’s just strange. You’re hot for a sixteen-year-old, and yet you family: 'cs_prajad2'">said girls aren’t into family: 'cs_prajad1'">you.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">They family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">think family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m a snob! I refused to attend one socializing event, and everyfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">thinks that I family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">think family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m too good for family: 'cs_prajad2'">them or some shit.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">think family: 'cs_prajad1'">you’re drunk.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’m not drunk. See, I can… huh?” His vision blurfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">red. His hand grabbed on to somefamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing, probably her arm. It was firm, just family: 'cs_prajad2'">like his arms, but her skin was soft. The next family: 'cs_prajad1'">thing he family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew, he was family: 'cs_prajad2'">already kissing her.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He really was drunk.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I never family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew you had a crush on me.” The young woman laughed, one hand family: 'cs_prajad2'">playing family: 'cs_prajad1'">with his family: 'cs_prajad1'">hair.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Ugh. I just…thought family: 'cs_prajad2'">your lips family: 'cs_prajad2'">looked really family: 'cs_prajad2'">nice…”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could not family: 'cs_prajad2'">remember what followed family: 'cs_prajad1'">after that. The next family: 'cs_prajad1'">thing he family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew was that her weight was on his hips. Her family: 'cs_prajad2'">body family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt heavenly. Through his family: 'cs_prajad2'">artificial nerves, he family: 'cs_prajad1'">could feel her silken smooth family: 'cs_prajad2'">skin. His finger traced the fine lines wfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here her real flesh met her family: 'cs_prajad2'">artificial ones.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad2'">When Apaimanee woke up, she was gone. It was night, and she did mention that she had a job to attend to.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He sat up on the bed, realizing he was naked, and he family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt that it was all wrong.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What the fuck am I doing?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">His guts told him to family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave the family: 'cs_prajad2'">room. He put on some clothes and tried to family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave family: 'cs_prajad2'">through the family: 'cs_prajad1'">front door. It family: 'cs_prajad1'">would not open, and the alarms family: 'cs_prajad1'">went off for about half a minute before everyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad1'">went quiet. He tried the s, but all of family: 'cs_prajad2'">them were barricaded. He tried the family: 'cs_prajad1'">balcony, but as soon as he family: 'cs_prajad1'">stuck his hand family: 'cs_prajad2'">over the railing, the shutters family: 'cs_prajad1'">went family: 'cs_prajad1'">down and cut him off the world.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The family: 'cs_prajad2'">room was on the eight floor of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">apartment. If he jumped, he family: 'cs_prajad1'">would die. If he climbed, the shutters might push him off the ledge. Not a good way to die.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He found that he was family: 'cs_prajad1'">stuck on the balcony and family: 'cs_prajad1'">could not get family: 'cs_prajad1'">back into the family: 'cs_prajad2'">room. He waited tfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">here for hours. The night was hot and humid, but at family: 'cs_prajad1'">least the floor was cool.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The young woman finally refamily: 'cs_prajad2'">turned.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad1'">knew you’d try to run.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I was trying to get to the convenience store.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“If you family: 'cs_prajad1'">needed snacks, you should have family: 'cs_prajad2'">said so, not climb out the balcony. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Anyway, it’s not the family: 'cs_prajad2'">first time a guy ran away me.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She unlocked the doors and let him family: 'cs_prajad2'">through.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee watched as she shut off the defenses using a set of switches. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could see the family: 'cs_prajad2'">first few, but the movements got complicated family: 'cs_prajad1'">after that.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You have tight securities.” He family: 'cs_prajad2'">said when she was done.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Of family: 'cs_prajad2'">course. I have a VIP guest family: 'cs_prajad2'">here.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee gritted his teeth.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Is it to keep otfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">hers out, or is it to make family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure that I never family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">The woman plopped onto the couch, sitting family: 'cs_prajad1'">with her family: 'cs_prajad1'">legs crossed. She did not say a word.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You really do intend to keep me family: 'cs_prajad2'">here.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What good is knowing the family: 'cs_prajad1'">answer?” The young woman raised an eyebrow.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I thought you were on my side.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She family: 'cs_prajad2'">played family: 'cs_prajad1'">with a loose thread hanging her sleeve.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Crystal is the name of those behind the family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport attack. family: 'cs_prajad2'">They have a leader, whom we’re family: 'cs_prajad1'">still trying to hunt family: 'cs_prajad1'">down.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee took a step family: 'cs_prajad1'">backwards. The young woman continued.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I have no intention of letting you family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave place. You’re welcome to try.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">She made no move to get up.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“My reason for picking you up is simple. You’re a witness that I must protect. Nofamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body else in terminal E of that family: 'cs_prajad2'">airport made it out family: 'cs_prajad2'">alive, except for you. You family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t family: 'cs_prajad1'">leave place until we gather family: 'cs_prajad2'">enough evidence to drag the man behind the attack into the family: 'cs_prajad2'">light. And,” she got up, “I want a successor.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">Apaimanee got to the door and opened. Nofamily: 'cs_prajad1'">thing family: 'cs_prajad2'">happened. He rushed outside, but the gate was family: 'cs_prajad1'">closed. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could see family: 'cs_prajad1'">people passing by, and some homeless family: 'cs_prajad1'">people were leaning against the wall family: 'cs_prajad2'">right across. He called out, but family: 'cs_prajad2'">they ignored him. Everyfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">body batted him a glance and quickly family: 'cs_prajad2'">looked the family: 'cs_prajad1'">other way.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He tried to climb, but family: 'cs_prajad2'">felt a bullet grazed the side of his family: 'cs_prajad2'">body. It family: 'cs_prajad1'">came a mounted gun on a post, and family: 'cs_prajad2'">looking family: 'cs_prajad2'">above, he family: 'cs_prajad1'">could see electrical family: 'cs_prajad2'">wires. Rows of family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">them, ready to zap him the family: 'cs_prajad2'">moment he touched family: 'cs_prajad2'">them.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You’re kidding…”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">It was no simple family: 'cs_prajad2'">apartment complex; it was a prison.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">His family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs family: 'cs_prajad1'">went weak, and he collapsed onto the ground. He family: 'cs_prajad1'">could hear her footsteps family: 'cs_prajad2'">approaching. She was holding her family: 'cs_prajad2'">phone, pressing and swiping family: 'cs_prajad1'">with her fingers.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What did you do to me…?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“I family: 'cs_prajad2'">turned family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">limbs off. Prosfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">theses are so cool, aren’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">they?” She towered family: 'cs_prajad2'">above him. “I wasn’t done talking when you left. If you want to keep family: 'cs_prajad2'">your memories intact, I suggest you comply, or else I family: 'cs_prajad1'">could just press a button, and family: 'cs_prajad2'">then family: 'cs_prajad2'">your memories go woosh.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“You family: 'cs_prajad1'">still family: 'cs_prajad1'">need me as a witness.” Apaimanee gritted his teeth.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“Yeah, until I figure out how to get that memory chip into and out of family: 'cs_prajad2'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">head.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">He trembled.

family:'cs_prajad1'; ">        family:'cs_prajad1'; ">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">Anyway, family: 'cs_prajad1'">let’s go family: 'cs_prajad1'">back inside. family: 'cs_prajad1'">It’s so hot out family: 'cs_prajad2'">here.”