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(Nanowrimo 2013 Winner)It's a simple check on the back of your driver's license - "In Case Of Serious Injury, Please Salvage." It could almost certainly save your life, but with this promise comes a steep price; that of your humanity. If too much of your body is damaged and replaced with robotic prosthetics, then you're no longer considered a human, and can be bought, sold or destroyed with hardly a single thought.Jean's not thought about his friend from high school in years - he'd died, end of story, and they'd moved away. Lost contact, too; that is, until he gets an email with a note about a mysterious inheritance. But he doesn't just get part of the Bodt family fortune - he also inherits the Doctor's only son, one of the first Salvages in existence... and his old friend.(Hard copy of a derivative/transformative work - available only briefly, at no profit to the author)