By the year 2256, Henry had lived numerous lifetimes. He had never understood how his students would end up end up finding the artifact and want to swap with whatever much older body he would be in at the time.
Aiko was simply the latest one to do so. She had been quite clever by creating a digital replica of the artifact to take Henry’s current body (which had been a 60 year old woman). Aiko simply claimed to be old at heart and wanting to retire before even graduating.
But with the digital replica, he was able to study the artifact like never before. Coupled with the advance in technology since the 1940s, he was sure there would be clues as to how it swapped bodies and why he seemed to almost be linked with it.
There didn’t seem to be any sense to it at first, but then he did a deep scan with AI to pick up on a faint pulse of light undetectable to the human eye emanating from the glow in the center -- a pulse that matched his own heartbeat. As he continued to examine it, the syncing with his own self was uncanny. What exactly was this thing that convinced people to swap bodies with him and had allowed him to live for over 300 years?
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