This most certainly isn't what she meant when she said she wanted her neural implant checked. Someone cutting into her head made her nervous, of course, but she didn't expect them to be crazy or doing so while she was awake.

She can hear him talk, hear her father's voice, but she can barely make her own throat function at all without her muscles to help her. Her jaw feels frozen as she tries to get a word out.

"Dad?"

It's distorted and muffled behind her barely parted lips, and she closes her eyes at that sense of pressure. It won't hurt too much, huh? She doubts that.

She focuses on her breathing. She has to stay calm. Freaking out and losing her cool isn't going to help her get through this, and if her Dad is really watching, she needs to stay strong for him too.

She's not sure how long that'll last.