Learning Days

The next day, the entire group had already spent some time cultivating and absorbing the beneficial effects of the resources they had each received.

The resource they each received was compatible with their qualities, something created from the data the parasite had already collected in their bodies. These resources had an expiration date, after which they would lose their properties exponentially.

As much as any of those people still had reservations about the Armhands, they knew they were already in the clutches of that organization. What could be worse than the parasite inside their bodies?

Hell, even the robots hadn't escaped having such a strange creature invade their bodies and mark their essence.

They had already consumed two different resources during the selection test, so they were already 'dirty' enough to be bothered by the situation to the point of not using the few things that could help them in this place.