<blockquote>I said, “They’re waiting for you to take your Conversion Exams in Phylla.”
“Ha! The divine powers in Phylla say I’m ready for the test of humanhood. Sorry, I don’t want a Convert stamp on my ID.”
Her flippant attitude surprised me. Convert status was the holy grail of all lab clones. Clone embryos carried to term by surrogate mothers were considered natural-born, but not lab clones cultivated in synthetic wombs and jump-started with neural uploads. Lab clones had to be certified through Conversion Exams before they were recognized as legal persons. Until then, they were the limited life span property of their sponsors.</blockquote>
