He shook his head, "I wanna go to space. Trying new things was literally my 'character arc' when I first showed up, remember?" he chuckled, "I don't suppose you could do that fork thing with me though..."

She shook her head, "It's not forking that's the problem, it's reconciling when you want to re-integrate. They have reliable internet out there, not the fastest but still well over the gigabit connection on your phone, so you should still be able to use the Virtual World to interact with people down here. We have to go up in twenty to forty minutes though, otherwise we'd have to transfer through the sub-pacific to the African relays to get ahead of the orbit and wait for it to come around, and that's all a huge hassle."

"Alright... And you said there's bodies up there for us?"

"Yeah, Synthvali. They print them around pre-made frames in orbit, and they're pretty customizable if you don't like anything about them, beyond the Avali morphology of course."

"So... I leave my body here in the shop's stasis and go wait in the simulation on the relay, and a backup will stay behind?" He asked, stepping into the chamber.

Nuki nodded, "Everyone gets backed up automatically whenever they transfer through the Relays. If something catastrophic enough to kill you happens up there, you'll wake up back here and not remember leaving."

"Alright, well, I guess I'll go ahead and get along then, if there's nothing else."

"There is, but like I said, I already have an instance of myself waiting on the Relay."

He nodded, "Right... Gotta remember what you can do on the Cloud... Alright, see you there." he hit the button, and the chamber door closed. His vision filled with white light as the fields engaged, his body tingling as usual. He felt himself begin to levitate just before he lost all feeling, and his senses went to nothing...

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