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It’s been a year since the accident that killed Hank's wife.
That was before Hank took the job on the severed floor, back when he was working a regular shift at CyberLife, so he remembers getting the call while he was at his desk. An autonomous truck crossed into Jen’s lane, and she swerved on the icy roads to avoid it. Cole was with her, in the back seat, and he was in bad shape, already in the operating room by the time Hank got to the hospital, but Jen was already gone. Dead on impact, the EMS worker had told him. She didn’t suffer.
Hank is suffering.
He made it about three months without her before he asked about openings on the severed floor.
~~In 2041, Hank Anderson works on CyberLife's "severed floor" for employees handling highly confidential material. Severance is a voluntary procedure, the installation of a chip in his brain that divides him into two versions of himself - one that only remembers his work, and one that only remembers his life outside of it. The two don't mix.
He's happy there. He might not know anything about his life outside, but he's happy.
And then Connor shows up as a new hire in the department, and mysteries about CyberLife slowly start unraveling.
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Hank is 53 years old. He's never had a soul mark, doesn't have a soul mate. And he's fine with that. He cheated the system once and it cost him everything he had. Never again.
When August 2038 rolls around and the number '313 248 317 - 51' appears on his arm in perfect Cyberlife Sans font, exactly where a soul mark should be, Hank wants nothing to do with it.
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