For a moment, she couldn’t understand what was in front of her, her brain refusing to accept reality . The left side of her head looked normal though bald; the right was different. It had been replaced with a long brass block that projected forward and back twelve inches. Its external side was serrated to form a massive heat sink; the background whine came from its cooling system. Her left eye was organic, the right replaced by three lenses arranged vertically on the machine’s brass face. They clicked in and out as she focused.