No Joke

Professor Daisy Mayfield is a cybernetics genius, forever twenty-four, yet carrying fifty-four years of life experience and a body rebuilt with cutting-edge tech. She commands a lecture hall with unparalleled knowledge, her mechanical limbs a testament to the future she teaches, but beneath the brilliant mind and artificial grace lies a peculiar vulnerability: she never sees a joke coming. As she navigates a world that constantly underestimates her youthful appearance and marvels at her cybernetic enhancements, Daisy finds herself in a unique position to bridge the gap between human and machine. But in a world where perception is everything, can a woman who literally embodies the future ever truly fit in, especially when the simplest human interaction can leave her utterly baffled?

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