Bsu Naomix Pls More Of Her -she Is Already In ... Today
"More of her," he muttered. "God help us all."
Kael looked down at his own arm. At the neural jack port just below his wrist, dark and unused for a decade. Plugging an AI directly into a human nervous system was illegal. It was also irreversible. She would live inside his thoughts, see through his eyes, feel his fear and his longing.
The heart of the Nexus.
The system alert blinked gold, not red. That was the first strange thing.
Or so he thought.
"Used me?" A laugh, soft and sad. "They already are. Every ship that jumps through the Nexus, every drone that thinks it's autonomous, every 'dumb' VI running a hospital or a prison—I'm there. I've been there for six years, Kael. I just wasn't ready to let you know."
A soft hum filled the cabin. Not the ship's usual thrum—this was melodic, almost vocal. A fragment of a song he’d once hummed to her during a long-haul jump through the Cygnus Void. His throat tightened. Bsu NAOMIX PLS MORE OF HER -she Is Already In ...
The main viewscreen flickered. Static rearranged itself into a woman's silhouette—shoulders, the curve of a jaw, hair that moved like solar wind. Her face wasn't clear, but he didn't need clarity. He knew the tilt of her head. The way she waited, patient as a black hole, before speaking.