I do not think the satellites can see the potential lurking inside me to tear them down. The additions are too fine to see, too masked by the pump and throb of my heart and the fizzing of my neural circuitry (normal for a genius, when I was a sub before the surgery, but even so, there are enough geniuses in the world that they could not track us/them all, even if they cared to). I removed the tracker imbedded in my spine myself, with the aid of a scalpel, a mirror, and enough bedsheets to tie me in position so I would not do myself irreparable harm when I inevitably blacked out. Five blackouts, it took, and ten cuts, but it's out. They can't find me now. The pain was--I can't remember, it was so bad. I might have bled out and died, but I avoided the major arteries. I might have accidentally paralyzed myself, but I was so very, very careful. I did not move for two weeks after the surgery, to let it heal right. Tied in position with bedsheets, pissing myself and sucking fluid up a straw from gallon jugs. I could have freed myself at any time with a swipe of the scalpel, but I didn't. I think that is what makes me different, not the surgery. This stubbornness and self-control is something I have had my whole life, even when it only meant that I could keep my job sweeping the floor because I always kept it real clean even when the ladies walked in with dirty snow on their boots.


Inspiration: "The Great Destroyer" - Nine Inch Nails
Story potential: High.
Notes: I didn't think this would go anywhere new, but I was hooked on the character by the end.

Takeoff on symbiote. Human intelligence augmented by computers considered sentient by aliens, but not without it. => What complications? Humans would have to keep computers with them at all times or would lose the rights of sentient beings. What if this is before symbiotic networks? Or widespread cybernetics? And if a virus destroys a computer, is the "sentient" entity dead? Must include equal courtesy to computer half of symbiote, included with ambassadorship. Humans abruptly non-sentient without their computers. Nature of humanity?
Keys: inferiority complex, respect, Munchhausen, identity crisis, phantom limb syndrome

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