"You’re staring, Jax," a voice rasped. It was Silas, the club’s lead tech-modder, wiping grease from his hands with a rag that had seen better decades. "Thinking about that pneumatic upgrade for your spinal column?"
Jax sat at the chrome-plated bar, watching a performer named Flux on the center stage. Flux was a masterpiece of kinetic art. As they moved, the translucent casing of their forearm revealed shifting gears and glowing fiber optics that pulsed in time with the music. To the uninitiated, it looked like a prosthetic. To those in the lifestyle, it was a "transition"—a deliberate shedding of the limitations of flesh for the precision of the machine. machine fucks tranny
Jax grinned, the movement slightly stiff due to the dermal plating along his jawline. "Flesh is a design flaw, Silas. You know that. I want to feel the bass in my processors, not just my ears." "You’re staring, Jax," a voice rasped
As the sun began to bleed over the horizon, Jax stepped out of the club. His internal HUD (Heads-Up Display) flickered to life, highlighting the city’s power grid in shimmering gold. He felt more alive in his copper wiring than he ever had in his skin. Flux was a masterpiece of kinetic art