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that location can interface between the nanites and your conscious mind."
    "Computer, sir?"
    "Yes, Skye. These nanites are going to do more than just make you stronger and faster, they are going to accept a primitive set of instructions—something that has never been possible before now. We're going to have to make a number of additional injections at secondary sites—creating a kind of network of biomechanical computers at key locations inside of your circulatory system—but once that is done you won't just be faster and stronger than the best of our military personnel, you'll be able to instruct the nanites to change the actual structure of your face."
     
     

Chapter 4
     
    The Society Military Training Complex
Six months earlier
    The Citizen-President was as good as his word. Despite the discomfort inherent in the injections, they went off without a hitch. He prepared each of the main and secondary sites over the course of ten minutes, and then he proceeded to inject the specialized nanites into each of those sites, talking me through what was happening at each stage.
    As he made the first injection, he talked about the marvel of technology that the nanites had just started constructing in the space between my lungs, the factory that was capable of creating nanites to replace those that inadvertently got expelled from my body. Apparently this strain of nanites was even better at staying out of the digestive tract, respiratory system, and perspiration ducts than any previous breed, but there was still going to be some loss no matter how good the technology was.
    When the plunger went home for the nanite injection into the second site he talked about how the nanites would soon be constructing a flexible metal ring around my aorta. Apparently it would serve as a transmitter so the computer could interface with the nanites as they used my circulatory system to move around my body.
    "The interface between your central nervous system and the computer is unfortunately not capable of transmitting complex commands, so you won't be able to do much more than command the nanites to change your face between two or three different structures, but the computer still provides other benefits that aren't possible with the other two nanite strains."
    "How so, sir?"
    "It will register the presence of adrenaline in your system and instruct some of the nanites to take up position along key neurons inside of your body. Electricity normally travels at about one-tenth the speed of light. You're probably not aware of this, but nerve impulses in the human body are much slower than that. At their best, they only manage about fourteen percent of the speed that electricity would travel down a metal wire.
    "Fortunately a chain of nanites stretched alongside the body of a given nerve can register the presence of signals coming from the brain and then send that signal down the chain of nanites running down the spine. It means that the signal can cross a significant percentage of the distance it needs to travel at more than six times its normal speed.
    "It's going to take some getting used to, but once you've finished your training I'm assured that you'll gain additional speed over and above even what your increased strength would otherwise suggest."
    Each of the secondary injections created another processing node that wrapped itself around another vein or artery to ensure that the nanites would react as quickly as possible to any changes in my body.
    Once all of the secondary injections were completed, the Citizen-President went to the back of the room to retrieve two big syringes that looked like they were filled with graphite, and injected them into the site where the factory was being built. Apparently that was another benefit to this strain of nanites. For franchised citizens and soldiers both, it was important for them to eat special dietary supplements to make sure that they consumed enough heavy metals to provide the factories with the