The mist evaporated to reveal a partially reprinted cadaver. A blue hexagonal mesh formed the outline as if carved from clay—face roughly shaped, hands unformed, genitals missing. Bones emerged from the plastic, transparent edges thickening as they descended to connect with fibrous muscles and twisted tendons. The vascular network dripped clear fluid from thousands of unfinished capillaries while unformed eyes gazed upward. Alice was human—old and obsolete. Now she understood the fear of this technology, the temptation to dabble with baseline humans impossible to resist.