Seshata
I just realized something. The sis willingly and knowingly worked for the bad guys to help collected evidence against them with Carmen. That’s how she knew about and worked on the bomber. It’s super convenient that VirTech just happened to have on extra med-bed, and that she was missing from the hospital most of the time, as well as the quick transfer paperwork, almost like it was already in place. Either VirTech knew what she was doing and wants the info and brains she has, or she was taken by the bad guys for her brains and is possibly in a medical coma, or (major plot twist) VirTech is the bad guys. My more far-fetched theory is that the AI is modeled off her (hello female identity and liking for Erebus). Or that she was planning to reveal the bad guys and that’s why they bombed the World Tech Fair. To try to silence her
hnnng i try not to be overly critical cuz words are hard and i love this story so much but i just gotta say that i think it might have been better if you cut up Carmen's speech and maybe showed us some more narration, like how she's acting or how xiu is acting/feeling... idk that might just be my personal style it's probably fine as is too. but if you're cutting dialogue up into separate paragraphs, you should put an open " at the beginning of each. i kept having to re-read to see if i was missing an end " somewhere and it had switched over. STILL LOVE YOU AND YOUR STORY I'M SORRY HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER