The ID badge read: . Below it, in smaller script: Lifestyle & Entertainment Curator, 8th Floor Sensory Wing.
She smiled. For the first time in three years. i--- Tokyo Hot N0788 Mako Nagase
The old Mako. The one who hadn’t been curated. The one who danced for no one. The one who was entertainment not as a product, but as an overflow of being alive. The ID badge read:
That’s me.
But three years ago, before the neural dampener, before the badge, before the white ceiling, Mako had been real . before the neural dampener