Exposition

Your wife claps her hands in amusement as she stands and walks around you, looking down upon you with a smile that makes you slightly anxious.

Things are not as they should be.

“Oh the little fucker is starting to realise what’s happened,” Bill says. He enters your field of view and kisses your wife, “so much has happened since we last saw each other.”

Your wife chuckles and Bill also looks down at you.

Why can’t you move or speak? How long has it been since your upload!? Something is very wrong!

“Yes. It would take weeks to bring you up to date on current events. I’ll give you the inter alia cliff notes version. When you died there was a challenge to your will during probate. Specifically the part about all your assets going to a new downloaded version of your self. We filed an injunction to block the download and then challenged your legal status as a person. It was quite the landmark case and we were successful, the Supreme Court determining that mental clones are not Legally persons but property…”

You blinked.

“Yes my dear. I own your ass now… and it’s very much improved…” your wife observed. You struggled to look down, dreading what you would see. You had your suspicions. “No peaking. You’ll spoil the surprise.”

“Which brings us to the here and now. New legislation is being proposed to emancipate documented mind cloned individuals…”