the mystery was deep yet obvious….claude was attracted to mystery….he wanted..no….he yearned to meet his dark goddess Desmondeta and find peace beyond the coils of fellow anthropoids…

he sat in the eastern european autumn night and smoked his ZWADEWSKII PRIMO….tobacco and a clear mystry to be solved….

claude laughed…..obviously there was detective work to be done here..

She was changed…Now she was a humanoid lizard with artificial eyes….there were also other bits of crome and functionality…I could not get over her wide maw…My Artificia had Transformed herself…
I was feeling she had thrown away herself…Thrown away our past…The lizard she now was turned its artifact-eyes upon me….
(the 12th of Rapidos) Quick-Message from Artificia-Lizard ; » Sway… please meet me in Immersion Softnode Seven…there is something i yearn to Impart upon you»
so it was meeting within machines by projection….I plugged in and powered there…awaiting me was her avatar Slideboy…Slideboy folded and lay upon a mushroom…Yes that one could do…a quite nasty thing to do was Imprint your ID upon anothers psychic structure….or even Erase another…that left a quite wondering and naive user…you had to possess the right hacking tools of course…
then suddenly my avatar was overpowered from behind…she had two avatars here; the assaulting form looked much like her new lizard-shape…
-«Oh Sway i Missed you» her mindvoice transferred to me….and i felt something stiff and insistent and warm press up against my behind -«Hey Arti…Stop that!»i insisted…
She sampled my aura by touching my ear with her tongue…-«But you lie…You seem to enjoy this» she whispered -«Lots of little silly Slideboy Prime Personas Injected into your Strata…sorry…but it seems so nice»
And so i suffered a quite hacking Upload….the next day i had plenty of mourning to impart to my psychiatrist Doctor Malmare…He made symphatetic noises as i told of the Incredible Humiliation…but when i segued into a diatribe on Arties betrayal of our past together…by becoming a lizard…he interjected..-«she was not fully herself as a human…she is free now…I think you should consider this»…..after a bit of thought i smiled wryly, Slideboy.seeds rolling around my mind and asking for daddy to change their tired tires…-» I guess i have this soft spot for her…even as a rapist lizard!» …. «that is really messed up is it not doc?»
Doctor Malmare just looked a bit at his notepad and said «You Really should consider an Upgrade one of these days mister Sway»….»a bit of synaptic broadening perhaps»—«the Human Condition is quickly becoming Obsolete after all»
-«yes doc»…………………….

-«i find myself so fragile….so naked in the light of all that is real…..often i wish to vanish»

Doctor Freund; -«but if this fragility is accepted….allowed to be a thing to be pondered upon….would it not be a good thing to continue and not become nothing?»

-«to become nothing….it is not easy..»

Doctor Freund;-«indeed it is not…it seems we endure with much tenacity…..and so my hope for you is to continue to exist….when ending is so difficult….is it not just as well to endeavour to endure with as much grace as possible?»

-«yes…..yes i will attempt to do just that»