Augmentia (Chapter 14)
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An amber glow has filled your room. The soundtrack from the city has reduced to a rumble with an occasional distant yell from a drug-addled homeless person.
Your duplicate opens her eyes to find you looming. She has a brief moment of hypnagogic bliss; a goofy smile cracks her face, but then reality seeps in and she’s deathly afraid of you again. You try…