Katherine was exhausted to say the least. These last few
weeks at the office had been brutal. Long hours and little time off had left
her a corporate zombie. Work, go home, sleep, get up, work some more—the cycle
just repeated ad nauseaum. Even though it was morning and she had slept a good
full eight hours, she still felt drained.
The
highlights of her day was the forty minutes she spent on the train going to and
from work. Thanks to her touch screen phone and a decent set of headphones, she
got to escape to her own little world twice a day.
Katherine
had gotten the device for her birthday a few months ago and she had used it
everyday since. Her brother had said that while it still had a ‘few bugs’ that
it was still a cutting edge piece of equipment.
A
few weeks ago she had down loaded a new music app and she loved. It allowed her
to make custom channels for herself and it’s accuracy for playing songs that
she liked was flawless. She was glad for that too since around the same time
things had started picking up more at work.
Despite
doing the same thing all day long, it was relentless and tiring. No matter how
fast she worked things still seemed to take just as long to finish. It was
getting to the point where entire days were just repeats of the ones before.
Well
at least she had her music. She put in her head phones and hit play.
An
odd sound came through but she never noticed it. This wasn’t a surprise since
it had played every time but she had never noticed it once. As she sat in the
train, eyes closed, head to one side, the sound subsided, but Katherine never fully fell asleep.
A
few more moments pass and a voice started speaking softly.
“Hello,
Katherine. Welcome to the network. Here is your daily assignment for today . .
.”
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