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The girl covers her face in embarrassment, but the blush can still be seen.
"Y-you already know about it... Please don't blame Chevalier. I should have known that this wasn't the best idea."
She half-closes her eyes and wrinkles her nose, looking somewhere to the side for a couple of seconds. Then her eyes look back at the camera, focused and intent. When she speaks again, despite the blush still lingering on her partly covered face, her voice sounds surprisingly calm and collected.
"You want to know who I am, and that's fair. The truth is, my own knowledge is limited. A year ago, I was just an ordinary, sickly girl. Now... I am more. I hear whispers in my head, I see through other people's eyes in my dreams. I can reach other people's minds with my own. Like a few days ago at Heisenberg, when I was able to reach Frieda's mind."
"My past... I grew up at Pittsburgh. Was bedridden most of my life. Didn't even have the strength to walk."
"My brother bore the heavy burden for both of us, while I only got worse as the years went by. Thanks to him, we were able to get off this planet; we spent a couple of years among the Junkers. Then he became a Legionnaire, and I was transported to Valravn... Where my condition was stabilized."
"However, the real change happened some time later. After my brother encountered the... Alien, something seemed to wake up inside us. I received these new... Abilities, and my physical condition also began to improve, although it is still very far from ideal."
"From my brother, I learned that he and I were... Experiments of Ageira. What exactly and why they were trying to get from us, it is difficult for me to say. It may be that there is no one left who can say for sure. Hackers rescued us and other children, hid us among ordinary families."
"As for the present... I was worried about my brother's contact with this... Scientist, Thorn. So I came to Heisenberg determined to find out more about it. Here I met... A surprising number of people, as you probably know."
"One of these people was Chevalier. Someone who inspires a great deal of faith in me. Someone who has accepted me in all my manifestations. And someone whom I would like to support in all her endeavors."
"My ambitions are simple. I want to understand the world and myself as much as possible. I want to make the world a place worth living in. And I want all people to one day look at each other and realize that they are all connected by a single, unified purpose."
"I can be useful as someone who can navigate dangerous places in space, as well as a combat pilot. I'm sure Chevalier can vouch for the latter."
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