Could you imagine if time stopped right before your eyes, but the only thing that it affected was you? You stay staring, unable to move, while others fulfill lifelong dreams, complete missions thought to be impossible, and discover things believed to be myths, living life to the fullest. You hear conversations, want to join in, see miracles, try to smile, feel sadness, need to cry, but can't. Not many people can imagine such a life. I am Ivory Winston, and I can, because that was my life. I awoke from "Lock-in Syndrome."
In the future, science has found a way to re-animate the dead and make them pliant servants for the wealthy. They buy the units for 10,000 for a base model. More attractive units sell higher as well as the more physically fit the model is the higher the price. The units are used for anything and everything their owner wants, from household work to administrative duties, to even being sexual companions. They are each programmed with a hard drive in their brain that works like a computer and allows them to have a quick mind and agility, as well as nano machines in their body to repair any damage that can occur with normal usage.
There are some people who still view the units as a dead body and have trouble interacting with them in their daily life. But most of the population is too poor to even afford one so this problem is left to the upper classes that can buy the units.
For some, poverty is worse than death.
For one Porcelyn, death is just the start.