IMPERIAL CHAPTER BOOKKEEPER WITH SERVITOR

Twin brothers entered the cult of the Machine. Both were improved. Only one was permitted to keep his mind. The record is brief, as good records are. Twin acolytes, one genome, delivered to the chapter in the same crate of tithed flesh. The elder tested high in retention and pattern recital and was assigned to the archive, where he was taught that knowledge is holy, that flesh forgets, and that his duty was to transcribe what the Machine deems worth keeping onto media more reliable than a brain…

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