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Her shrnk had suggested she ‘consider the option,’ and so Ava did, the next day. She pushed through her workday, pretending to only ‘consider.’ But with her SHRNK’s permission, resisting it felt like a farce, like seeing whether she could hold her hands up in the air all day. She busied herself with tasks – she read through instruction manuals, looked over several prototypes for a new Loving Tissue Box. Finally she released herself from the fake argument she was having with herself.
She skirted around Engineering, made her way through the Wellness Kitchen, and stepped into an elevator a full two units earlier than usual.
On a different day she would have felt displaced by the light outside, a too-bright reminder of the change in routine. But this afternoon Ava didn’t have the capacit
