"Marsha, you''re brilliant! A true prodigy. You must have an eidetic memory—this is your 5th Ph.D., right?" asked her mentor, Professor Wilcox.


    "Yes, but that''s nothing, Professor. I plan to get a doctorate in all the disciplines."


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    This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    Marsha, 35, born 3289, violated the Unified Earth Consortium''s—‘Transparency, Honesty, and Knowing Law.''


    She was sentenced to the ''Abyss'' for one year: A pure state of virtual nothingness, which created a desire for ''something.''


    Once free, Marsha downloaded ''everything'' into her mind, she violated a temporal law by utilizing a device for when advanced technology existed, but individuality remained unvirtualized—1970.