The Story of Alexander, Epilogue.

The computer was dismantled. The Internet router – which had been discarded – found, and similarly taken apart.

It took some time, and more brainpower than he had ever exerted, to figure out how not to bleed out when slitting open his veins and tethering them to wires. How to fuse metal to his fingertips without damaging the circuitry – he sacrificed the nerve endings to do it.

To live in the world he wanted, he had to become a physical part of it. Have it be a part of him.

The thin skin of his eyelid was cut, his corneas peeled away…and when he could see again, it was through the screen of an LED monitor.

And that is how Alexander’s story began.