Everybody will deduct me from their taxes. Half the cost will be absorbed by Interface Biotech on the Moon. Steel valued my services so much that they were willing to underwrite a state-of-the-art cyborg transformation. When I was able to listen, they explained that U.S. They finally decided not to try to salvage the arm and leg, which saved some pain. I tried to scream but found I had no vocal cords. There were limits to anesthesia, unfortunately.
They stripped the dead skin off me bit by bit. This was in the weightless ward at Mercy. This will be a machine that can turn itself off.įor many days there was only sleep or pain. If I were myself, whatever fraction of myself is left, perhaps I would resist the insult of being turned into a sexless half-machine.Īh well. They claim they will craft for me testicles and a penis. I can hear after a fashion, though, and will have eyes in a week or so. I have no lower jaw, nose, or external ears. My left leg and arm are gone, as is my face. They tell me that my heart stopped with the shock, but they managed to save me. They turned it off in a second, but there was still plenty of time for the beam to breach the suit and thoroughly roast three quarters of my body.Īpparently there was a rescue bubble right there. There was a glitch in my jetseat controls, and I flew suddenly straight into the wide beam of charged aluminum vapor. But if you are reading this, you must know all that.įive days ago I was inspecting the aluminum deposition facility and had a bad accident. Steel’s Skyfac station, a high-orbit facility that produces foamsteel and vapor deposition materials for use in the cislunar community. Wilson Cheetham, Senior Engineer (Quality Control) for U.S. Surprising to find that it has only been five days since the accident. But a recorder would be useless, since I will not have a mouth for some time, and I can’t type blind with only one hand. To that end, they gave me an apparatus that blind people use for writing, like a tablet with guide wires. They say I am to keep a detailed record of my feelings, my perceptions, as I grow accustomed to the new parts. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.