The co-workers had all signed into their computers for their daily check-in when the video conferencing software begin to flash with a strange series of bright pulses. Some looked away, but it didn’t matter; within seconds the pulses stopped but it had affected each member of the team.
Being the group’s Project Manager, Graham spoke up first while still feeling disoriented and still trying to process what had happened. “Is everyone alright?” He asked. As he did so, he noted that his own image on the screen seemed not to move. “Are we frozen?” He asked before realizing Hiromi’s lips moving. He then looked down, noticing her image on screen doing the same. He was wearing Hiromi’s shirt. No, he was in Hiromi’s body!
Hiromi was the lead developer on the project. She worked remotely and spoke very little, often in broken English when she did; but she was still damn good at her job. Given her lead status, she was quite a bit older than Graham, and the only woman on the team -- both of which, he was tring to grapple with now that he was in her body.
“Not frozen, but why you in my body?” The voice speaking was Tyler, the project’s designer, but clearly speaking with Hiromi’s broken English.
“I think we’ve ALL swapped bodies,” Graham suggested, “So let’s figure out who’s who. I’m Graham...”
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