Lex - Vignettes 1
Her eyes opened to pure feedback. It was that blinding type of white which washes out everything else. She brought her hand to her face, pure white, as if the contrast on the world was up too high. Finally, as she moved her slender fingers in front of her groggy eyes she was able to make out the edges of her hand.
instinctively, lex reached up to run her hands through her long black hair.
The amplified sensation of her hand on her bare scalp woke lex from the remaining haze of the quicksed which had put her out.
she closed her eyes and rubbed her naked scalp, luxuriating in the intensity of the feeling.
She began a tactile exploration of her body, searching for the telltale signs of post-op.
her fingers traced down to the metal plate behind her left ear, then to the ear itself. 1 2 3 4 5 piercing. Big gauge impracticalities which would render all the standard earpieces useless.
She didn't care...
She wasn't ever going back to their world. These mods had seen to that
lex opened her eyes again, her vision nearly restored to normal as her neural system recalibrated itself.
She was in the sterile silver chamber of an MD.. in the city, mobile doctors were only legal for routien maintenance and emergencies, but lex wasn't in the city anymore.
Out here, things were real. These changes she had made to her body, these were permanent
lex contemplated the word for a moment...
Permanent
nothing in the citiverse was final. Everything had a logical undo. Everything was so safe.
Lex could only remember 1 occasion in which she had actually felt pain. Her own body, maturing unexpectedly, had conflicted with the hormonal inhibitors meant to decelerate childhood.
her first period hit at 15, 4 or 5 years before other girls. Her parents didn't even realize until lex began to walk strangely. All she knew was that she hurt somewhere she was conditioned not to talk about...
Lex looked around the MD, remembering waking up in one then too, only to find she'd been cut open.
She'd been slit at 15!
As always, her guide was there to explain, delivering his calm advice in her ear.
Then, as now, she had explored her new features blind, laying on the cool metal table in the confines of a doctor, her guide calmly explaining the routien surgical sealing of her privates at birth, the covering with synthskin of what was such a 'dangerous' thing. Lex remembered the twinge of sarcasm her ai's voice .she didn't think much of it at the time, but she knew him so differently now. He had planted the seeds.
He explained that most girls were slit at 20, as their coming of age, when hormone repressors were programmed to stop. Something had gone wrong with lex, and her monthly cycle had started without all the necessary equipment.
More curious than wanton, the young lex had discovered her new addition, in all of it's splendor, and spent a good deal of time 'recovering' in the MD.
Lex thought back to that first exploration and the flood of emotions associated with it. she thought of her tiny 15 year old body, chemically repressed to remain that of a 10 year old until that day
a lot had changed in 2 years
more had changed today
once again a curious lex explored her new features. Her hands traced down her body... She hadn't realized how much she had grown in the time that had transpired since her first operation. Her body was catching up quickly with her natural age.
Her hands passed up and over her chest, and down over her stomach. Piercings now adorned her body as well. Her nipples and navel all sported thick gauge steel rings. Tentatively, she delved down into herself, and discovered the 2 mods within her - a piercing just above her labia, and a harmonic stim embedded in the flesh, positioned very strategically.
She heard her guide's voice faintly in her ear, as if down a long hall, laughing gently to himself.
Suddenly his whispered voice was right next to her ear.
"Ahh... I see you've found your little friend.." he whispered. Lex could almost feel his breath on her ear.
The stim warmed up, vibrating silently but violently, like the base of a tuning fork.
Lex's back arched up in the air, her head against the steel table. She pressed her hands to her crotch to stop the onslaught of sensation.
As quickly as it had started, it faded to stillness.
Lex sank back down to the table, spasming slightly. She emitted a sound of half moan, half groan.
As her body relaxed, her eyes opened slowly, and a grin spread across her face.
"Fucking tease" she said, rolling to her side.
She swung her legs down off the table, and scooched towards the concave wall of the MD.
Touching the wall, she opened up a voice console.
"Change mode, Manual," she intoned to the doctor
"Changing mode to manual operation"
"Scalpel"
"Replicating Scalpel"
After a bit of noise from within the walls of the doctor, a section slid out, revealing a scalpel within it. Lex gingerly picked up the blade.
Unflinching, she pressed the tool to her left forearm, slicing effortlessly down in with the nanite-sharp edge.
She turned the blade a bit, wincing at the sharp pain of severing nerves. Still, she wiggled the blade more, fishing for something within her skin.
From within the incision, a half-pea sized bit diode dropped out. Lex removed the knife, and the perfect incision closed almost by itself. A bit of blood began to seep from the cleft skin, but only enough to hint that moments ago, a knife's blade had been within her arm.
Lex picked up the tiny device, and held it towards the wall of the doctor.
"dispose"
Immediately, a manipulator arm unfolded from the wall of the doctor, positioning itself next to her had and taking the thing from between her fingers. Lex marvelled at the seamless automation, envisioning the process which she had undergone while unconscious, dozens of mechanical arms piercing, slicing, and healing while she laid prone.
She heard an audible crunch from within the doctor as it crushed the life from the bit of her she had just cut out.
"Lex?"
Her guide's voice sounded different... He wasn't his usual confident self. She'd scared him.
"I'm still here"
"You've just gone off my map... Should I ask why"
"Cut out my RID"
The guide sighed in her ear. "Again, I'm forced by law and protocol to inform you that removal of Remote Identification Devices is both unlawful and dangerous.
"I know. Let's go fix that"
