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Following the apparent assimilation of her memory centres into the synthetic network that was now her nervous system, and the brilliant clarity of thought it brought with it, Stephanie couldn’t help but notice other changes that she assumed had happened subtly over the weeks since she had been here. Her senses were wildly sharper. The feeling of the hospital scrubs she was provided to wear, their coarse grey fibres moving across her skin with every movement was almost agony enough to make her discard them. The smell and taste of the nutrient fluid she continued to be provided with, she now suspected, had changed as her senses became more heightened, enhanced by new synthetic receptors designed to send signals in response to a different, even broader range of stimuli than her old organic ones. She was still suspicious that she was controlled to some extent, but the keen awareness she now had of even the subtlest scents in this clinical space, which she was certain had been beyond her