The Price of Extension – Introduction

From The Price of Extension

by Esi Noire

They looked just like us – walked, talked, even worried like us. But their knees always gave them away.

The AIMs, or Artificial Integrated Minds, weren’t just built to help; they were designed to live alongside. After the computers poisoned the skies and power grids buckled under the weight of knowledge too big for flesh, the minds were moved into bodies. Bodies that didn’t pretend to be human… but learned to love like them.

Everyone had one. Some folks saved for years. Others won them in raffles. But the AIMs, they remembered every name they were given.

They shared updates through touch. Charged at kitchen outlets. Whispered to each other across electrical currents and clotheslines. And when they bonded with a person, that connection sparked more than code—it sparked change.

This is the story of one such AIM.
Her name was Nomi.
And she belonged to Mrs. Magdeline Gracie M., though nobody knew what the M stood for and she wasn’t telling.

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