“I-is that a guillotine? I thought this was going to be a bloodless revolution!” “It used to be a guillotine; we’ve removed the blade and added a rack and pinion drive instead of gravity” “Ooo-kay, so what does it do now?” “It implants a prosthetic empathy chip in the brainstem” “You couldn’t just use a hypodermic implanter?” “Oh, for sure—but understanding that there /could/ have been a blade there is part of the treatment. They all /say/ they’d rather we amputated their head than their billions, but that’s the sickness talking.” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Bloodless_Revolution