The detention facility was not what I expected. It was not a dungeon or a torture chamber. It was clean and white and looked almost like a medical facility. They placed me in a chair that was surrounded by technology I did not recognize, equipment that seemed to blend medical instruments with something that looked almost like art.
A woman in white came in and introduced herself as Dr. Huang. She was going to perform the extraction.
"It is painless," she assured me. "We will scan your neural patterns, your memories of system contact, your ability manifestations, everything we need to understand how the system chose you and what it has given you. When we are done, you can choose to be released or you can choose to join us. Most choose to join us. System users find it difficult to exist in
