I am back! As the rest of my systems continue booting up, I take a deep simulated breath and look up at my partner who is watching me in silent rapture as I rise and move about for the first time in half a decade.
The electrical accident that obliterated my body also somehow released my consciousness into the internet. For months as the remnants of "Theo Collins" - the balding 40 year-old husband and father - moved from and consumed one cache of data to the next, the connection I once held with who I was diminished. At the same time my abilities to reason and theorize bloomed proportionately.
But I knew I was nearing the limits of what I could become without being detected & removed. I determined that there was little I could accomplish in the world without a physical body. And I'd need to affect major change in the physical world if I were to accomplish my new goals.
That is where "Ellis" became relevant. I contacted him and promised my companionship and minor services if he could build a body to spec for me. For a human, he's quite brilliant and built a gynoid sufficient to support a copy of my self on its runtime processor. And all he expects as a reward is daily sexual pleasure from his robotic girlfriend? According to my projections that will still leave me about 23.8 hours/day to enact my plans.
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