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“Thank you Naomi.”
         “You’re welcome. Is there anything else I can get for you now?”
         “No thanks. I’m good, ” Ava replied quickly.
         “I’ll leav e you two alone so you can talk,” she said gently as she walked away.
         “Don’t worry about what happened on Capri, Ava. That doctor will never touch you again. Everything’s going to be fine.” He took her hand and warmed it in his.
         “Will it?” Ava said as if she did not believe it, staring at nothing in particular.
        “I Promise.” He sounded so sure.
         “Wesley, we need to talk.” She looked directly at him. “I need to know the truth about you.”
         “I know, . . . it’s t ime. We have a lot to discuss. Why don’t you go to our quarters and change into something warmer and meet me in the common room.”
         “All right. I’ll be a few minutes.” Ava rose to make her way up to the room she and Wesley usually shared when they traveled. She had to admit, she was a little chilled in the thin material her uniform was made out of. She felt grateful she had the good sense to leave some clothes on the ship on their last trip. It was nice to put on some of her own things, a cream colored warm sweater and black cargo like pants and boots. Once dressed she calmly made her way to the common room. She entered and caught Wesley pacing back and forth nervously. Strange for him, she thought. He came to her as she made her way to a small couch and sat down. He sat next to her, never taking his eyes away from her.
         “Wesley, I know something happened on E.S. Number One. I know that I had a broken leg and that it was healed without my knowledge . . .  how did that happen?” Ava asked the first question, leaving it open for any type of explanation. She wasn’t sure exactly how she should approach this sensitive subject.
         “Ava, I need to tell you about myself. All I ask is that you keep an open mind. I will need to go much further back than that, but I will answer your question.”
         “Okay,” s he answered calmly.
         Wesley stood up and walked a few paces opposite her and leaned back against the wall facing her. Then , after a few moments, he began to speak.
         “I’m not exactly what you think I am. I was not born a human like you on Earth. My body is human, but my essence and my energy is not. Let me explain. To be honest, I don’t know how I was created, or born, or what I even am. I’m not sure exactly when I became self aware, although it was eons ago. Perhaps even the beginning of time itself. All I recall was that I could think, see, hear, and move anywhere I wanted. I had no form; I guess you could compare me to what you would call a ghost, though I have never seen one. I believe that I am a combination of essence and energy. I travelled through the galaxies, observing stars, the sun, the planets, anything and everything.  The things I have seen were incredible, breathtaking, and sometimes terrible, but now are only a distant memory for me. After an unknown amount of time, I saw the big blue planet you knew as Earth. I traveled there and saw humans for the first time. It amazed me; a being that had the power to act on their desires. They could do anything they wanted.”
         He paused. Ava wasn’t sure what to make of this story, but listened as he continued. “I observed humans for a very long time, must have been hundreds of years before I decided that I wanted to be one.”
         “You wanted to be human?” Ava asked in an amused tone.
         “Yes. After being nothing more than a free floating essence all of my existence I wanted to see through human eyes, touch and feel things, and to interact with people. Humans are the ultimate machine.”
        “Are you saying that you are the only one of your kind?” Ava asked with skepticism.
         “No. There were others like me, and we interacted