Gretchen's mind spun, the gears in her skull grinding against each other. "The user agreement was five pages long, and encrypted with legalese," she said. "No one ever reads those."

"The background check showed that you have a five percent chance of having ovarian cancer by the age of sixty, a ten percent chance of having arthritis by the age of seventy, a perchance towards depression, an alcoholic great uncle - it runs in the family, you know - a susceptibility for respiratory ...