“There is only one way this can end,” he sighed. He touched the side of his face, where plasteel and crystal data-clusters had long ago replaced his eye.
On the table, the holographic constructs were drawing nearer, circling like hungry sharks. They weren’t real, of course. Just light and shadow, interpreted by a computer. Like everything he saw. Like everything everyone saw, if you thought about it.
He reached for the console. His fingers tapped in the lengthy code and pressed the final button. He leaned back with a whirr of hydraulics as the pleasant female voice began the countdown.
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