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Am I a person? Borne asked me.
Yes you are a person I told him. 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. The city is dangerous littered with discarded experiments from the Companya biotech firm now derelictand punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. 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.

One day Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lumpplant or animal?but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill