Moss, keep that metal binding over the interface on your arm for a week. If you take it off and ruin my work, it's your fault. One week. It will give the synthetic binding polymer time to fully integrate, and at that point, your flesh and the interface ring are sealed in their current alignment, and the neurons have merged with the signal paths. ( Read more... )

[The camera is tilted at an odd angle, but on the screen is a surprisingly gory image -- SHODAN's hand is laid open on a table, palm up and skin pulled aside in various incisions, with a number of machines hovering over it in precise angles. Some of them hold the skin down, a few are holding muscles and veins aside; still others are attaching ( Read more... )