Translations:Codex: Fuck the System/36/en

Lying inside the pod, Cai didn’t remember what he’d asked the fluorescent-scaled lizard to do to him. He remembered the words ‘intense’ and ‘go like wow’, but nothing else. His breath made little flower patterns on the glass. The anaesthetic on top of the alcohol and the pills made him feel chill and pleasantly hollow. Ksshunk, ksshunk echoed in his ears and he recoiled from the jolts beneath his shoulder blades. Brand new ports. Another two–ksshunk, ksshunk–on his back, above his hips. One more at the base of his skull.