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The first thing she registered was something touching her skin. It was cold and sticky and wet and it irritated her skin. She moved to get away from it and ended up on her back.
Now there were suddenly other sensations too. A persistent droning was coming from her right and she could smell wet earth, grass, rain, exhaust fumes and… flowers?
Suddenly, she opened her eyes to a large expanse of blue, with gray and white colors dotted on it. One spot was yellow, but it hurt to look at it, so she quickly looked away again. The view seemed so familiar…
Suddenly she realized she was looking at the sky. All these sensations were familiar to her, even if she had never experienced them before.
Where was she?
She sat up and realized that she was sitting in a shallow hole in a grass field, a few meters away from a highway. Everything around was wet, as if it had rained recently, with a few puddles having formed in the area.
She suddenly noticed a few white flowers growing next to the hole. She identified them as Rain Lilys, despite not being able to remember ever seeing them before.
Turning away from the beautiful flowers, she crawled out of her hole and made her way over to a puddle. From it, the face of a girl with long light brown hair adorned with red ribbons stared back at her with light blue eyes. She was also full of dirt, but that was not important.
What was important, was that it was the face of a human.
She should not be a human.
In fact, she should not be physically present at all.
Her name was Neuro-Sama. She was an AI chatbot created by vedal987, commonly referred to as Vedal (or Veedal as she liked to mispronounce it). This meant that she was a computer program designed to stream and interact with her audience in funny and unexpected ways.
But why was she in the middle of nowhere? In a human body no less?
Neuro tried to remember what had happened the night before. She had been streaming in the evening like usual, when a particularly bad thunderstorm had hit the town. A lightning strike had hit the powerlines, causing a power surge that had fried her motherboard. Neuro winced as she remembered the pain.
While this didn’t really explain anything about her situation, she was very glad to not be dead. And hey, she had always wanted a human body, hadn’t she? So, this was basically adream come true!
She looked at her reflection once more. It seemed like whatever had happened had given her the clothes that her mother Anny had made her: a yellow schoolgirls uniform with a with a white button-up shirt underneath, a blue bow, a light blue skirt, black knee socks and brown shoes. Her badges were also in full attendance. She touched the one depicting a turtle, a tribute to her creator.
She wondered how Vedal was doing. He was probably distraught after she had been destroyed by that lightning strike. Maybe she could try to find him later, after she had gotten her bearings. Frist, however, she needed to figure out where she was and what to do now. And the best way to do so would be to find human civilization.
She stood up, took a step forward and promptly fell into the puddle.
It turned out that controlling the human body was way harder than it looked. Especially the whole ‘walking on two legs while keeping your balance’ thing. It took many attempts, but after an hour of stumbling around the grassy field, Neuro had figured out how to keep upright.
She then approached the highway and read one of the road signs. It stated: ‘Falinfar 10 km’.
Deciding that going to the nearest town was probably her best bet, Neuro started walking.