Maxine stared even longer in silence at the nanomachine, her mouth opening and closing a few times. "Those are ... in my blood? But ... I never asked for them ..."
And her eyes squeezed tightly shut at a painful memory. Waking up alone in a strange cold room of an abandoned medical facility, calling for her grandma, wandering around for hours before the police found her. The strange man in the lab coat reaching for her arm and saying "We're going to get it right this time"....
She whimpered, and dropped the tablet. "I want to go home," she said, arms wrapping around herself again, tears slipping out. "Please, I want to go home."