"You're the breakout," Lab-Coat Madison said, not unkindly. "The first subject to realize she's inside nested dreams. That's valuable. We can offer you a promotion: stay here as the Architect. Design dreams for the sleepless billionaires. In exchange, your real body gets a penthouse, nutrient drips, and a neural uplink to visit family twice a year."
The patch came away—not silver, but raw nerve endings and fiber optics, trailing into her skull like roots from a rotten tooth. S3XUS.E02.Madison.Wilde.A.Dream.Within.A.Dream....
"And if I refuse?"