She woke up one morning with an un-scratchable itch on her cheek. By lunch, what had grown to a steady pain was so intolerable that she wished she lived closer to a city so she could get help. At 2:23PM, she started screaming from pain. She fainted at 2:26PM. When she awoke there was no feeling in her cheek, but a quick look in the mirror revealed a metallic, glowing, flower-like "thing" on her cheek. Doctors later determined that “it” had directly fused with her nervous system. It appears to just "watch" her surroundings. That is, until one day when it began communicating with her…

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The probe growing out of her cheek.