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It is a transaction.
To fulfill your offer of improving her augmentation experience is well worth the time, especially if she continues to act in your interests outside of the pilot’s chair.
So you get to work.
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When her eyes opened to a hazy and painfully bright world, when she couldn’t even make out how many fingers the man held up, she thought she was through.
That her dreams were over.
The shaking or nodding was all just motion. Indistinguishable shapes.
If she could just link with her better half again, she could see. She was certain. The medtech didn’t know what to make of her request at first, instead wasting her time with examinations. A hack.
The Colonel came by, his stern voice urging her to wait. The frame was elsewhere, Beta had been passed off to another during her medical stay.
He told her she didn’t need to go back. Others would take up the task. To sync, pilot, and operate her dream.
She almost broke down in tears.
She might have, just a little.
Begging and pleading would not change his mind.
Authority denied her now, telling her to rest and recover in hopes of her sight returning.
It wouldn’t.
But one thing kept it bearable. Sophie knew her time would come. The whispers told her. To languish would not be her fate.
