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You check your messages, looking for the next excuse for an outing. The computer terminal is a throwback, an actual physical machine. It was one of the first machines you used, and you feel a nostalgic connection to it. Besides, it is more secure simply from it's age and location.
So much is based on the cloud, and accessible with the right password, or DNA scan. But to use this machine you need to actually sit at it. You tune out the rattling from the overhead pipe. Probably just noise from heat expansion or something like that.
There's a loud -crack-, and you are engulfed in a grey cloud. It moves in a gust, initially like a jet of steam, until it gains a purpose... a target. It shifts and swirls around you like a swarm, as the nanites invade your lungs, and start to convert you from the inside out. They also land and coat your skin, too. Working from the outside inwards.
You know that whatever it transforms you into, the safety protocols will protect you. But that's not very reassuring, when you consider all the different ways you could be changed.
As the nanites work intensifies you feel a warmth spreading out from your stomach, to fill your arms and legs. As it advances up your neck, you feel faint... and seconds later your head bounces leadenly off the desk. But you feel nothing as you are already unconscious.
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