Made in China

With an almost macabre sense of satisfaction Chips found himself to be human again. But with this came a new skill-set to re-learn also.

For as a dog, in his previous incarnation, he had acquired the tastes and the thinking of an animal’s ways - it went with the body, so to speak.

And equally so, so much of being a man, simply comes from the body also, and not the indwelling consciousness within. The body has its own wants and needs, and it was painfully apparent that breathing was the most necessary one right now.

Of course the box that he was confined in was not constructed to actually keep anybody prisoner - it was in fact a container to house a sterile cadaver, that was ‘donated’ just hours before for the lab-coats to run tests on.

An aged man from China, with tanned skin and brown sapphire eyes looked back at him in the reflection of the stainless lid above. With a push, and a crash Chips lifted the lid up and off.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances