...and it was gone, shuttered away under that cold exterior, the surprise gone from her face entirely. As if forgotten, Motoko set the drink aside.

"Generally speaking, a cyberized individual isn't capable of tasting new things. The sensory memories previous to the surgery are preserved, but the actual sensation of taste is muted and comes across more as chemical analysis than anything else," She explained as clinical and dry as a textbook. Something she'd never before tasted shouldn't have been anything more than numbers telling the ingredients, "It's probably just a byproduct of the hack."