There was no denying the protocol. The Ghosts had struck unprovoked. Not for the first time, I thought of that moment when Ghosts in robot bodies of various shapes and sizes came up behind me and started beating and tearing at me. How they’d used those bodies to drag me through the dirt and then crush my legs. My body was my body. To escape into the network as just my mind, an AI, would have driven me mad within hours. And then what? This is what the Ghosts had done to 87 percent of Humes. With their bodies dismantled, Ghosts had more than likely collected and enslaved their consciousness,
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