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Nora shut herself in the dorm suite’s bathroom, the inhaler clutched in her fist. Once she was within range of the ProtectFlo toilet sensor, her eight-digit campus identification code flashed across its display. The light flared from yellow to green, where it would remain until Nora exited. There was no way to circumvent the system unless, of course, one peed outside, maybe in the campus woods, but that would render vital health data inaccessible.She brought the inhaler to her lips.
“Why would anyone build a campus in an arid wasteland,” her mother said when Nora got her scholarship, “what with the planet getting hotter by the minute?” But every corner of the world was drying out, and Riva University had a next-generation system that recycled wastewater into potable drinking water. Toilet to tap, its predecessor was called in the old days, and while it was gross if you thought about it too closely, the system was efficient.
Nora blinked again. BeautyAid was brand new to the market and difficult to obtain, not to mention controversial. It was classified as a cosmetic, which eliminated FDA approval requirements, but plenty of people were already lobbying for it to be taken off the market. Others called BeautyAid a miracle product.
It wasn’t that Nora wanted to cheat, exactly. She never would have started using VimCore if she’d known it could give her an unfair advantage. But now that she’d been on it for years, and earned a full scholarship to Riva based on her athletic abilities, it felt cruel to have it torn away when she was so close to graduating. What was the harm in staying on VimCore a little longer? It wasn’t like she was good enough to go to the Olympics, or even challenge seriously at Nationals. This was fine.
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