“I think,” Lena said slowly, “Bornface is me. Or will be. Or wrote the book before I was born.”
And there she was. Page three, figure 1.2: Micrograph of a developing human neuron, showing ectopic expression of the ion channel Nav1.6 (red) in the soma rather than the axon initial segment. From Subject L.K., age 17. bornface biology book
This book is your future. It’s also your past. I wrote it when I was fifty-two, after mapping the entire circuit. I dedicated it to my mother, who had the same mutation and never knew. “I think,” Lena said slowly, “Bornface is me