Cyberpunk Setting. In the Martin city of York-18, a young woman named Elizabeth is deep in debt and now facing default. In York-18, debt default means a nanite injection to remake her into a sexbot.
The rain-slicked streets of York-18 gleamed under a perpetual haze of neon, where holographic ads flickered like faulty synapses against the towering arcologies. Elizabeth hunched against the chill wind whipping through the underlevels of Martin District, her coat collar pulled high to block the acrid tang of ozone and street grease. Her wrist implant buzzed insistently—a final notice from CredNet, the kind that didn't offer extensions. Default loomed, and with it, the nanite protocol: a one-way