Unfortunately for you, a routine boil lancing sent you from the clinic to the hospital, and from the hospital to the ICU. Somehow they damaged your spinal cord.

Fortunately for you, it's the future and 6 months of physiotherapy and daily pills are all it takes to heal a spinal cord injury.

The hospital has decided to lend you a home care nurse free of charge. The nurse is under indenture with the hospital and, like so many in this world, has her thinking shaped by the BCI attached to her temple.

RN-Q81's mandate is to take good care of you and make sure you recover well. Don't think too much about criminal negligence or medical battery, just focus on your recovery.

She will push invasive procedures on you, and make sure you're getting the care you need, whether you like it or not.

And if you're good for her you might just get some special treatment as a reward.

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.