Sometime in the possible near future
You wake to the sound of your alarm. Not the normal pleasant tune, but the blaring, PTSD triggering one. The one where you know the coming announcement will let you know you need an update. You slowly crawl out of bed to get to your mediface before the alarm gets progressively louder and eventually painful.
You scan into your portal and some government official, you can’t remember who anymore as they change too often, they tell you there’s been another emergence, somewhere in Argentina this time. It never matters where it comes from anymore. The response is the same. Crack the code, update your ‘plant, push the button, take the ride.
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