We got our implants five years after they were developed, and were beginning to get cheaper. We didn't go for the full integration; that just seemed like too much. Like giving up our minds to the feed. We can turn them off. And we do when we need to think. We can also pull out the chip, like a hard reset. Everything else is passive, the chip does all the work. It doesn't have control over what we do, just our sensory input, so if either of us get hacked we can get out of it. No horror stories for us.
She hacked it though. Last week. Figured out how to manipulate the code directly. She gave me her sight.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be psychic? I certainly did, but now I know. The chip monitors our thoughts, and we can tell it what to do with them. It's the control interface. I've always wondered if anyone can hear them out there. If anyone is recording what I think. I wonder if they find it interesting. Turns out it's possible. She wrote us a custom firewall with an AI writer. It's monitoring the entire network, watching how hackers work, and figuring out how to stop them and updating our firewall on top of what she's already put there. Anyway, she set it up so we can talk to each other in our heads. And not just words, thoughts, feelings, impressions. All we have to do is will it towards the other person, and they'll feel it, unless they're blocking it in which case we get a 'do not disturb' signal. It's really cool though.
She thought of something though. Called it 'assimilation'. Wondered if it was possible. We tried it a while ago.
She changed the protocols of how we receive each other's thoughts. With my permission of course. Made it direct, and instantaneous. Immediate. Then did the same with our sensory input. Even touch. It was confusing at first. I had to do breathing exercises to keep from panicking. She did too.
Our breath was in sync, and so were our heartbeats. I started to get used to it, to being able to feel her. Wrong way of saying it. It's hard to describe. But we calmed down, and I started to forget which thoughts were mine. And which body was too. It was strange, like I became her, but I was still me, and we were the same thing but distinct all at the same time. Then I kissed her.
I kissed myself?