FUNCTION-L₃ #11

2255-01-16 12:55:43 Aydan > <3

2255-01-16 12:55:49 明子 > AYDAN

2255-01-16 12:55:50 明子 > <3<3<3<3<3

2255-01-16 12:55:52 明子 > I haven’t talked to you in daaaayyyssss

2255-01-16 12:55:57 Aydan > comms blackouts are the Worst

2255-01-16 12:56:02 Aydan > we’re so close now!! we’ll dock within the hour

2255-01-16 12:56:05 明子 > I’ll get on the train right now and be there at your gate!!!

2255-01-16 12:56:08 Aydan > no fair that we have to wait that long do you think I could survive an unassisted EVA from...10km?

2255-01-16 12:56:12 明子 > not a chance but here’s something better than an agonizing asphyxiation

You receive a sensory data packet. Your empathica program opens it, and your interface collar delivers the message to your meat brain--emotion. You feel a blend of profound longing, loneliness, anticipation, excitement, and desire. You receive another packet. The signal travels the opposite direction from your collar, to the freshly implanted conduits under your skin. Barely perceptible sparks paint a picture for your biological nerves--the sensation of touch, pressure, warmth--as real to your perception as if she were right next to you.

At a distance of ten kilometers, her fingers graze the top layer of your skin, sliding down your arms. You send back a backchannel signal--what she touches, she can feel. Closing your eyes, your tactile sense tells all, each fingertip tracing the pattern of your interface conduits. She reaches your hand--you feel the warmth of her fingers interlocking with your own, the maximum softness she can exert.

2255-01-16 12:56:41 明子 > motor neuron link?