Walking to Inferno

She walks to Inferno and remembers talking to Elise the other night there. At least she can, remember it, but it's a recent memory, not like the murk of her memories from years ago. What was it that Elise said? "To get something tremendous, you have to give something tremendous, isn't that always the way?"

 

"She's probably right," Alice mutters to herself, her top-of-the-line cybernetic eyes scanning the street, nothing missed. The corporation didn't really explain what it really *means* to have part of your cortex strip mined like a coal deposit, replaced with an AI moderated neural gel to work your enhanced senses and store the corp-owned videos the eyes record. Old memories are gone or faint shadows, and the new ones... well the corp will not waste its investment letting you use the AI, so what little you have left are forced into the small amount of cortex they didn't use, and the old memories get pruned out even more. You did sign a contract, whether or not you really realized what it meant.

 

"Maybe I just get high enough all the time, I never need to store any new memories anyway." Not that she will, really, she thinks bitterly. The others probably lost even more than you did, selfish bitch. But maybe what Tober said has some chance of working. She focuses on that slight hope as she arrives at the club.

 

Smol Midian RP

Done