Unwind

Content Warning: This section of the guide discusses the source text's depiction of attempted sexual assault.

Lev has found a new travel companion: CyFi (Cyrus Finch). CyFi tells him is view on running away: “You got it in your heart to run from unwinding, ain’t no one can tell you it’s the wrong thing to do, even if it is against the law. The good Lord wouldn’t have put it in your heart if it wasn’t right. You listenin’, Fry?” (121). CyFi won’t tell Lev where he is heading, but that doesn’t bother Lev because “Destination implies a future” (122). CyFi teaches Lev how to get free food so he doesn’t have to steal—CyFi doesn’t approve of stealing. What Lev dies worry about is Connor and Risa: “Chances are, they’ve been unwound. All because of him. Does that make him an accomplice to murder?” (124).

CyFi reveals that his right temporal lobe was replaced with an Unwind’s. He regrets receiving the lobe because it made his IQ lower than before the procedure. CyFi asks Lev what his parents were like. Lev initially says he hates them, but CyFi presses him, and Lev explains: “They loved God more than they loved me, and I hate them for it.