10His second restoration had gone as well as the first. Nero raised one of her eyelids and then the other. There was a distinct lack of consciousness, signs the hibernation code was still in effect. He had performed both restorations while the women were under the control of it.
The steady stasis state was quite amazing, as was their almost instant recovery from it when the code loop got disrupted. Like the pre-booting of software to make it readily accessible on a wrist com, the companion code kept the female cyborg’s systems in a state of waiting to be woken at a moment’s notice. The subject’s only recollection was about the last thing that happened before she was put into that state.
“Hey, Nero. Ya better tighten those fecking straps another notch or two, if ya know what’s good for ya
