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It was her opportunity. She had to relocate from Taipei to the United States, but knew it would be worth it. All the planning, all of the preparations, then suddenly she was here at her dream job and now three months in. She should be on top of the world.

But she wasn't. It was fine at first, but as she worked at this place, she noticed something was up. She couldn't figure out what it was. She didn't want to make waves, especially if it was just a misunderstanding or some norms she was not familiar with, but as time went on, she become more and more convinced that something was actually going on.

She started to investigate small things, things she could easily explain away if caught. As time went on, she started checking more and more, not getting bold exactly, but figuring that she was moving slowly and seemingly innocently enough to pass unnoticed.

At least she did until she was sent up to an executive office. There in the office, in a chair beside her, was a man who looked to be just a bit older than she was. It was there that the executive told them both he knew the truth, that they were both snooping around in things that they shouldn't, and that they could come clean or face the consequences.

She kept her calm and her cool, but he cracked, admitting his suspicions but claiming she had nothing to do with it, insisting she be let go, that it was all him. The executive smiled, telling him that both would be dealt with, but his would be less severe. He then made a phone call.

The next day the man was walking down the steps in a little-used stairwell, stopping to see the same executive smiling up at him. The man could do little more than look back. He had hoped that his confession would spare her but it seems she got the worst of it. She was now nothing more than a head attached to a small wheeled disc-shaped robot with a small mechanical grabbing arm, her fate being to act as little more than a sentient robotic vacuum and cleaner. At least he still had a human body, though it was no longer his, but her former body below his neck. His body, he didn't even want to guess what they were using that for. He just knew that they had gone too far and now what seemed to be a great new job had turned into a living nightmare.