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"One of them had been sliced nearly in half at the waist and was now crawling on his forearms to get away, his legs dragging behind him like something clipped by accident to his body, blood coating the floor red. Another was on her back, trying to roll over as blood gushed from the fold under her breasts and her entrails spilled out."

I wasn't expecting horror but okay 🫣🫣

"As Donut lumbered away, its red sensor-light traced the bottom of the aquarium, calling his attention for the first time to what was inside. He’d expected crustaceans bred here on Mars or sealife shipped from Earth. What he saw instead were two human bodies, naked and sprawled on the substrate lining the bottom of the enclosure."

Excuse me what

"Dris returned with a strip of skin tissue from a shop-grown body, pink and porous in the scant light. Before V-Dot could utter another word, the skin was over his mustache and stretching down on its own to conceal his lips, until there wasn’t a mouth there anymore, just skin."

Eughhh

'“You’re almost a hundred…”Dipping down till his chin was submerged, he glared. “Old enough that you could have birthed my grandmother.”'

Dat age gap 👵🏻

Not sure why they're giving him a guided tour through a space habitation when he doesn't have clearance to come in but okay 🤷🏽‍♀️

'“Are you not the same forklift I just talked to?” he said.

It stopped with its forks facing him at knee-level, then sighed. “I hadn’t expected a human. One second…”'

A sighing sentient forklift. Now I've truly seen everything 🤖

"He’d witnessed many of his upgrades to newer, identical bodies and, in doing so, seen the man’s process for pairing the device he would take off his most recent body with the upload chamber in his new skull."

Ew what 🧐