Seven Million Years

I looked into Gaia's eyes, and I could see that she was upset, and I couldn't blame her. She knew better than me just how bad things were all over the world.

[She has a point! Well, we will leave the scan for another day. Because she is a spirit of the world, I think that she is the cause of the change.]

"Hmm, that is a fair assessment of things. I don't think that I could do something like this," I said.

[Now you can, and because of her change, you can scan her body and make more edited versions of her. That was what you wanted to do, right?]

I could hear the curious tone in his voice as he asked, so I guess that I must have made him a little bit interested. There was still the problem of getting him into a body, but we were taking steps.

"Yes, that is what I want," I said.