DT 2022: Operating Room

Merlin tried poking the back of his head but the hand of his ONI nurse swatted his away. Nonaugmented and the woman in gray scrubs somehow made his hand sting like hell.
“It itches…” The Spartan trainee mumbled, keeping his chest and face down on the bed like at a massage parlor. Except this was a surgical ward at Camp Ambrose.
“Deal with it, you big baby.”
They shaved his entire skull. First time in three years.
“It feels weird.”
“It will. We need you awake for the neural lace.”
The trainee tensed as a whirring drill neared his ears.
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