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I woke again with Azu standing over me.

“Guess I over did it a bit,” I said with a sheepish smile. “My heads seriously buzzing.” I could tell she didn’t know quite what to make of me. At the moment I could relate. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of me either… or what I was being made into. I could almost feel things shifting about, compacting here, locking into place there, and changing. “So, what did you call that place again? The Psi Plains? How’d I get there? My brain feels like it’s swollen.”

“It wouldn’t surprise me if it was. The Psi Plains are not easy to visit, especially for one as damaged as you. Don’t try to go there again. It is an extremely dangerous place.”

“No kidding. I don’t even know how I got there in the first place. This may be a stupid question but do you have a big, shiny cable like thing emptying into your head?”

“What are you talking about? That sounds like a Bond Link. My enslavement is on a different level to that. More complete. Why is it you ask?”

“ ‘Cause the one I’ve got in my head feels different some how. My mind is still a mulched mess around my end of it but it feels kind of like it’s got an extra outlet now or something and it feels like you. Say, can you touch my cable thingi without touching my mind?”

Azu looked stunned. “You, you want me to check your Bond Link for you?”

“Is that what that cable is? Well, yes, if you can do it.”

“I… very well.”

Then I could feel something which tickled my cable. I giggled, twitching. I couldn’t help it. Then I could feel her like she was inside my skin.

I could feel her startlement as she withdrew. Something was troubling her greatly… Come to think of it, how the hell did I know that?