Edge of Conquest

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The woman winked at Alfonso Petras as the nanobots entered his bloodstream.

“Please,” Alfonso begged, “I’ll tell you everything I know.”

“Yes, that’s the entire point.”

She hunched over a holographic screen, green light and numbers dancing on her pale face, casting green shadows on her lab coat. Alfonso’s forehead burned with fever. Inside his body, the nanobots skittered on his brain and scanned his neural activity.

“From now on, darling,” the woman said, “don’t you dare tell a lie. The nanobots won’t like it.”

A woman was strapped to a similar chair next to Alfonso’s. She was dead, her body barely recognizable. The tools their captors had used were still lodged in her torso cavity.

“Please!” Alfonso begged. “Don’t do this…”

The doctor calmly readied her tools at a spot just outside his field of vision. Alfonso could hear the tinkling of the metallic instruments hitting the tray as she lovingly ordered them. She ignored all his complaints and pleading until she was done. Then, someone else entered the room.

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