The voice pauses, then sighs. [i]I won't lie to you. Ofttimes, our Potentials come from the police or are bounty hunters. In that line of work, two things tend to happen. The first is conflict between Potentials and Agents, and the second are mortal injuries in the line of duty. Even worse is when they combine. At that point, extensive Cybermods are the only way to keep us alive. It's what happened to me. I was running a freelance job, or so my handlers told me, with a bunch of other Hunters I knew. Turned out it was a black-bag for the Mafia, some poor kid they wanted dealt with. I objected, of course. Innocent lives hadn't been in the equation when I took the job. I pulled out my gun and my best friend shot me in the head from 400 yards and dumped my body in the river. I don't remember any of it, but that's what they told me. I wouldn't be here if the evaluation group shadowing me hadn't scraped my guts off the rocks and done about 30 hours of surgery. And now I'm here. Grisly, ain't it?[/i]