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Sub-Matrix

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I was dumbfounded.

I sat up. "What? Why?"

"To bring you here," he answered. "I chose to infect you... and then to save you..."

"Save me?"

"...to take my place when I die."

"Take your place?" I said. "Wait. Am I-- am I cured?"

"Unfortunately no," he lowered his eyes. "The viral program had to be powerful enough for them to purge you. Even I don't know the cure."

"But--"

"I didn't create the virus," he answered my question.

"Then--"

"Yes," he anticipated my next question. "I infected you because I'm infected with the same virus myself. That's how I will die."

"But--"

"But you will not." He smiled his old wrinkled smile. "You won't die because Beatrice--"

"Yes?" I waited for the inevitable answer.

"Because Beatrice was never alive."

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