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She cried. They all cried. It was a cry of happiness, of success after a long struggle, of the knowledge that they had done something worthwhile. After man had been so long been confined to their fragile bodies, with no chance at escape when things went wrong they now had the solution.
The previously quadriplegic man they had helped (SHE had helped) could now move his arms, legs, head, his every limb. His family radiated happiness and the man couldn't stop moving – as if it all were a dream.
She could see the future. No more paralysis, blindness, amputations, or other physical chronic maladies. They could be cured. It was the greatest medical achievement in several hundred years.
That all of this only could be achieved by transplanting the brain into an artificial body was a technicality. A controversial technicality certainly, but a technicality none the less. After all, how could helping people be dangerous?