"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."
–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence

★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
★ Shortlisted – Best Shorter Fiction – British Science Fiction Association

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?

Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.