Andromeda’s New Brain Part 2

Andromeda lives on Koreapan, a mountainous peninsula formed after the Continental Rearrangement of the 2100s, when global warming caused the oceans to rise and shift Earth’s land masses. She has been implanted with a cytronic brain, following a hovercraft crash in which she was severely injured and both her parents died.

Her new brain gives Andromeda a huge advantage with schoolwork. But she has lost all her memories from her human brain, and her cytronic brain, while powerful, causes Andromeda to act somewhat robotically. Making friends is difficult, and when a kid promises to be her friend if she finishes his homework, Andromeda is stunned and confused when it turns out he was lying.

Andromeda asks her grandfather, with whom she is living after the crash, why people lie. He says that sometimes even nice people might lie, if they have a good reason. For instance, she might have a good reason to lie if cytronics smugglers, who steal computerized body parts like her brain, asked her if she knew where any cytronics were. To help her recognize when people are lying, Andromeda downloads a