![]() ![]() Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts-and definitely against Wick’s wishes-Rachel keeps Borne. ![]() Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump-plant or animal?-but exudes a strange charisma. ![]() One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company-a biotech firm now derelict-and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. ![]()
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