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Holly-G003 knew a lot of things. She knew that in 2541 she was born Holly Loughlin to a loving family on the colony Actium. She knew her family was taken from her in 2545, and that the image of her moms outside the ship, waving goodbye, had stuck with her for years afterwards. The image was still there, even after she forgot what they looked like. She knew she was found and recruited a short time later by a forgettable man from ONI and, at four-and-a-half, was among the youngest in Gamma Company. By the time she was five, she knew that the boy she met on the first day of training—Ash, with his curly brown hair, sad eyes, and funny accent, who didn't mind if she called him Ashley and didn't pick on her for being younger and smaller like others did—was her best friend. The others—quiet and careful Olivia, rowdy Dante, the always watchful Mark, all hurting like her from what they'd lost—were her friends too, but Ash was her first friend, her best friend. By eight years old, she knew