Amy Pond was sitting at home reading a book while her EarPods played some soothing music nothing out of the ordinary Amy was originally from Scotland but she moved down to London years ago her mother got a job with some company one of the many thousands part of the large Cybus industries firm so moving to the big city just made sense instead of a small village like Amy would have preferred despite Cybus being everywhere in her life Amy was still a recent adopter of the EarPods she had only received a pair for her birthday and ever since then they’ve been in her ears constantly as she sat there she thought she really wanted to be a writer herself someday maybe one day she could write a book and get it published with Cybuspublishing maybe but what would it be about nothing extraordinary the download was just one everyday thing and now Amy felt as if she were completely dependent on those devices sitting in her ears she used them for calling her friends playing music they even enhanced her hearing as well as a whole variety of things she knew she couldn’t just live without them now as she sat there at home suddenly she dropped the book she held to the floor she stood up standing and walking on the book she dropped like she couldn’t even see or feel it she walked rigidly out of her home and into the street her EarPods had been activated she joined a long queue of people all marching like her EarPods flashing a rapid blue Amy was just one in the several thousand fallen under the spell of their own EarPods it did not matter how much conditioning she had received through the downloads she had easily fallen under Cybus control