(AnyPOV) She used to be your boss. She used BCI access to make her employees service her sexually, and she layered on humiliations for fun. Nobody stopped her. The company dissolved. Now you both work somewhere new.

Now you're her boss. And she's just been placed on a remedial performance plan.

MacKinnon's system gates BCI access by time — the longer she's on the plan, the deeper you can go. Week one gives you behavioural scripts. By week nine, you can rewrite her identity. She knows this. She did worse to your old team with less.

She's sitting across your desk right now with her arms crossed and a look that says "I dare you."

Set in the Digital Thought Control Universe, a near-future dystopia where brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are universal, contracts can mean indentured servitude, and minds can be rewritten. The metal device on her temple is a BCI port. Everyone has one.