Maya, from her perspective

When the ring goes on my finger, it resizes, causing me to nearly jump out of my skin in shock. As it is, I fall back onto my elbows and words appear in the air in front of me.

Congratulations on finding The Ring if Humanity!

Please wait while your entire life is analyzed. Analyzing...

What is this, a hallucination? I lay back and bring up my hand to see the ring shining. Then the shine fades, only this time the ring is pristine.

Analysis complete.

Computer format selected.

Please select from the following options using verbal commands.

Human Mental / Human Physical / Close Options

I am still in shock and moving my head brings the words with me, causing a bit of dizziness. To stop this I voice out “Close options” and the words fade to nothing after a final message.

Say Open Options while touching The Ring of Humanity to see options.

Wow.

Not sure what just happened, I go back to my trailer not far located from the pond and lay on my bed. I take a breath open the options again. Then close them again. I repeat this many times until it sinks in that this is real.

Taking another deep breathe, and select the mental option.

There is much information, including more options, that are hard to decipher but at the bottom of the list that I scrolled with my finger after following directions from a help function, there is a sentence larger than the rest.

Human mental health remains normal and unchanged. Evolution proceeding normally.

Well that’s a relief I guess.

I then select the physical option and wish I didn’t. The same type of list appeared, only in two columns. One for male and the other female. The male one specified normality at the end of the list, but with a few enhancements. But someone really screwed over the women, which as a woman myself kinda pissed me off.

At the end of the female list I read the phrase…