FINAL.psd: a stanford storyboard club anthology

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your only option is to get a custom one. Guaranteed to get what you want, but even I
couldn’t afford that.”
Wait! Blake thought. If Kyle got a hybrid from the warranty system. What about getting one
from the custom body service?
“I know what you are thinking, Blake. I can’t give you failed custom bodies legally.
It will give away the identity of the one who ordered the body.”
Identity? Blake thought. You can’t identify a person with their body.
“What are they fussing about?” Blake asked.
“Some of those rich kids just have weird personal desires. I can’t tell you, and trust
me you will never want to hear it.”
“Oh. Like that guy who wanted two of THOSE? The one who lived a few blocks
from us back at our the old house?”
“That case wasn’t so bad. His wife didn’t enjoy that, though.” Kyle made his face
like his food was bitter.
“Your job sucks.”
Kyle shrugged. “It’s the best way to make money. Nothing more.”
“So you can spend it on food and girls?”
“Anyways, is there any way you can do your art other than getting a bio body?”
Kyle said as he ignored Blake’s comment.
“No.”
“Why not? You look no different from a bio body like that waitress. Besides,
people care more about the art than the body that makes the art.”
“They can see the body in the work.”
“Huh?”
“I can feel it being too… I can just feel it. The symmetry. The patterns. Do you
know what I mean?”
“Perfect?”
“Yeah!” Blake said as he pointed towards Kyle.
“Their minds are still human. How on earth can they be perfect? You sound like
when you were in your original body and you thought you could hear messages from
aliens.”
“And you tried to inject me with tap water mixed with painkillers.”
“That was a toy syringe.”
“Please, no more of that! This is not that alien crap! You can ask the curator.”
Kyle scratched his head, which made Blake think he was out of excuses. Kyle
placed both his hands on the table. “Fine. So say if I could tell apart works that were
made by a droid body from works by a bio body, so what?”
“Remember the hybrid body I had 70 years ago? It was a lot easier to control than
this body.”
“Yeah. It was supposed to help you. Spending more time on the thinking and less
time on materializing your arts.”