Whisper & Fury: Eydulan Series Book 1 by Mark Brandon Powell Page B

Like expanding your meat brain through reading, or cleaning your cybernetics that you have been failing to do.”
    “Just load the game I don’t need a lecture.”
    “What if I forced you to get up and clean yourself?”
    “Whisper I clean myself everyday with a shower, so what are you talking about?”
    “Your cybernetics need a tuneup. Not that I would expect an ape to understand, but your body is part machine. Which means maintenance. This is something I can do, but we have to go to the medical bay.”
    Kat had been avoiding anything dealing with her cybernetics. It was around the same time Gravan came into her life. She had almost died in an explosion her psycho ex-lover had setup. He then saved her life by rebuilding her with cybernetics in an attempt to keep controlling her. She hated being part machine and he knew it.
    “Look Whisper, just load up the new Blizzard game already. I’m itching to play it.”
    Whisper laughs, “Itching huh. Sounds like you need that tuneup more than I thought.”
    “Ugh, Whisper. Your my friend and companion, not my mother. So stop acting like it.”
    “Katrice, you need to take better care of yourself. It doesn’t matter if you like your cybernetics or not, you have them and need to take care of them.”
    Kat sighs, “So I guess that means no gaming right now?”
    “Nope, get your fleshbag moving to the med-bay so I can give you a tuneup.”
    Kat crawls out of the comfortable pile and lets out a groan. She didn’t want to get a tuneup, nor did she believe that humans should have to get tuneups. It was turning out to be one of those days for her where everything seemed against her. She could always go back to bed and just forget this day ever happened, but ignores the urge. As she walks to the med-bay thoughts of Gravan bubble to the surface. There were so anything things about the man she still didn’t know. Then there was the recent pull away. Right after they left Bexar Omega he started to get distant. The first few jobs they took were medicine supply runs to banned planets. The diseases were so bad on the surface they had to use orbital drops to deliver the goods. After that was planet Nix. It even left her with a bad taste in her mouth after that one.
    She could always try lingerie, but doesn’t think she needs to resort to that just yet. Talking would be the first step, which she just hasn’t done. Mainly because she doesn’t think she has too. He’s the one missing out on all that is her, and she knows he loves her. So he should be the one to come to her first. They were all over each other for months and now its been months. He should apologize or do something romantic. She nods her head in agreement to her thoughts.
    Whisper asks her to take off her clothes. She rolls her eyes and does it. Looking down at her leg, still exposed from when Gravan and her met. A shotgun blaster to her cybernetic leg. It was something that was like a memento and reminder all in one. She runs her finger across the metal, and it has a slight warmth to it thanks to the composite flesh surrounding it.
    Resealing the composite flesh that is covering her cybernetics would have been simple to do, but she just hasn’t been able to make herself go do it. There has been a lot that has happened, but maybe it’s time to get it done. The medical bay on Felicity’s was one of the best in the solar systems, so she hopes it can.
    Kat gathers up the courage to ask Whisper about covering the exposed parts. Not really sure if that is something she really wants.
    “Hey Whisper, do you have the ability to fix the hole in my composite flesh?”
    “The equipment is here if that’s what you’re asking. If you’re asking if I can do it, then no. I don’t have the programing. Plus I think you look better that way. It makes me feel like you are more like me, and I like that.”
    “More like you, as in the human hating AI that reads trashy novels all day long.”
    “They are not trashy. They are