You blink because the person who walks in doesn't even work for the company, but sure enough, it is Kevin, your roommate, and you turn to Jimmy. "Jimmy, sorry, Mr. Straube, um, what is Kevin doing here, he doesn't work for us?" Mr. Straube nods "We hired him on retainer for this trial, as a contractor, to log and record your performance using the FANTCIE system. Corporate thought this the easiest way to do the month trial"
It sinks in then: they don't want you to do a month shifting into different people's dream partners: they want you to live one full month as someone's fantasy, and really LIVE as them. Blinking, looking at Kevin, you realize live as HER, his dream woman, and you are friends with him, been roommate with him long enough to have a pretty good idea of just who they want you to be. "Ohhhh man, cmon, no way, seriously? I am have to spend a month as his dream woman, I mean, and live with him? That means...aw, no way" But Straube shrugs "You know what this entails, working in testing... you didn't complain when you were that silicon love doll for a week, you didn't complain when you were a churro and Stacey from accounting ate you, and you surely did not complain when you spent two months in a post office in Azerbaijan because the test user mislabeled your return package, did you?"
You didn't complain about any of those things for three reasons: 1) You got paid a handsome bonus on each occasion. 2) You were inanimate, so had no ability to complain, but most importantly, 3) you were still you, yourself, but this time, when you activate FANTCIE, you're going to be HER, Kevin's fantasy woman made flesh and you have a pretty good idea just what sort of woman you are gonna wind up as. Sure enough, he comes over and puts his hand on your shoulder, and the touch triggers the nanites, your form breaking down and being reconstituted as that of:
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