Lillian touches the giant, green cube and hears a robotic, monotone voice state, "Data transfer initiated. Test Engineer Lillian to be parsed, prior to transfer."

"Ok, the program's reading in your database and settings, Lil," Trae says afterwards, "Ready to go in?"

Lillian replies, "Too late now if I'm not." She can feel the program scanning every part of her inside and out. Every piece of data she takes up in the VirtuRoom is read by the program before she is moved into the simulation.

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