3 Insidious Innocence (1/2)
Cradled in the arms of the droid maid, Cynthia closed her eyes, let her limbs go limp, and pretended to sleep, hoping to imitate the behaviours of a baby.
Luckily enough, it would seem that the droid did not seem to notice any discrepancies with her behaviour. Although Cynthia knew that a droid which ran on programmed logics and rationality could never match the intuition of a human, Cynthia predicated that at least for now, she should be off the hook.
As such, Cynthia used this moment to contemplate her current situation and how 'she' came to be.
Judging from her inability to use her voice and the lack of control she had over her limbs, Cynthia guessed that this baby body had to be no more than one year old.
That conclusion would make a lot of sense.
That while the 'Cynthia' that was cradled in the arms of the droid was the same in terms of the physical body, in terms of both spirit and mind, it was anything but.
However, as a one year old, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to notice a 'change' in the person since they have no real past history to compare the new person too. In essence there is no 'new Cynthia' since there was no 'old Cynthia' in the first place. A fact that this 'Cynthia' was more than glad to exploit.
That would also explain how 'Cynthia' was able to rest control of this body from the original soul.
What happened to the original, 'real' Cynthia?
The 'new' Cynthia couldn't care less.
If she had to guess, the original soul was probably 'dead' in the most vague sense of the term.
Left to wander about that infinite void of nothingness as this 'Cynthia' once did.
Although she didn't know how she did it, after her first 'death' she was somehow able to not only persist through her immense psionic will but even forcefully take over a new youthful body.
This was due in part to the fact that the psionic restrainer which once restricted her past body's psionic will could no longer effect her post death due to being limited to only the physical realm.
As Cynthia continued to contemplate to herself, her memories of what the 'afterlife' was like soon flooded back into her mind, sending shivers down her baby spine.
Her fear of dying, combined with her tremendous psionic will and some sort of divine luck somehow allowed 'her' to find this new body and eventually steal control of said body from the original 'soul.'
If this was a body that was instead inhabited by a thirty year old soul for example, Cynthia doubted if her diminished soul from a dead body could ever hope to overtake the body of a rejuvenated, developed soul instead of a young, developing soul of a one year old.
Even if the invading soul was somehow able to overwhelm the original veteran soul, it would be nearly impossible to keep up a facade that the usurper of the body was still the same person to the original person's friends and family.
This sequence of events was truly a stroke of luck.
All the influencing variables and factors.
Each and every one of them.
Was exactly what Cynthia needed to successfully 'reincarnate' in this brand new body.
Everything literally fell perfectly into place.
Of course, all of this was all just a theory based on Cynthia's observations and whatever evidence she had to work with.
She could be either entirely correct or absolutely wrong.
Either way, whether she was actually right or not, this did nothing to change or even influence her current situation.
She was still in possession of a weak, still developing, one year old body with no idea as to her future fate.
She didn't even know who the parents of this body are or if she was even safe to begin with.
But most importantly, she no longer had that same body she that she once possessed.
She didn't care that this body was not the same gender as her past one.
What she truly cared about was the fact that she would essentially have to start over from square one.
While Cynthia felt that her tremendous psionic power still remained, that psionic power meant nothing if her current body can't handle the psionic pressure.
As the first ever human being to be born with such a high latent psionic potential that they had to create a new class, the 'S-class' specifically for her past self, she was thus a psionic prodigy in her first youth and thus her 'talents' were of course exploited.
However, the youth of her original life was also filled to the brim of close calls where her own psionic powers which could obliterate virtually anything in its path, also in an ironic twist nearly destroyed her own original body in the process.
As such, she had to overcome that obstacle.
The end result of overcoming said obstacle speaks for itself. In the peak of her past life, her past body was a trained and conditioned powerhouse which could seamlessly channel the psionic power that was beyond most people's imagination.
A powerhouse that was the result of endless hours of rigorous training.
And now she would essentially have start all over and endure that hellish training regimen once again.
It really was such a waste.
Such a waste for such a powerful body which was supplemented with the most powerful psionic force known to the history of man to die in such a pathetic and unceremonious manner.