In a dystopian cyberpunk future one low-class citizen comes across a relic of a bygone age: a functional drone helmet of a defunct hive. She is keen on having her cyborg hacker friend reverse-engineer it to live out some… shameful fantasies.

Elizabeth wakes up to find she had missed a big date with her boyfriend by several hours when all of a sudden her dorky, incredibly underqualified lab hand, bursts into the room with her PhD project, which should only be able to detect realties, not change them and yet..

An artist reflects back on life under the Affini Compact.