Thank you for this new chapter. Conclusion is nearing it seem. I'm curious about this "She will be as good as new before I leave"… This story is absolutely awesome.
Also have you any writing plans at the moment?

I've myself thought about a little something that could amuse you.
One night of this year, a big flash tore the dark sky, followed by the roar of a large space object traversing the atmosphere. Before the first lights of dawn, the site where the object crashed was swarmed by military and scientists. Even if not that much people had looked at the object itself all the media in the made the same guess: an alien craft have fallen on Earth.
And they were right. It was indeed alien but it also mostly destroyed. From the wreak, the scientist were able to only study the materials composing it but almost all the technologies were destroyed.
Only one alien artifact was found still undamaged. The thing was looking like a huge mushroom with a small foot. Its head was covered with a bicolour pattern of green and gray glowing splashes. After some experimentation, it was discovered that pressing on any green splashes initiate a replication procedure where the mushroom create a copy of itself using what it can found around. The operation take less than a second and the mushroom can use a wide range of materials.
The mushroom is also able to accomplish an other task. When you touch a gray splash, in a half blink of an eyes, the shroom cut open your skull and make an incredible modification to tour brain. It make it indestructible. Without killing you of course. Once the operation is done, the brain can be extracted safely extracted from the body without impairing the patient in any way. After the operation the brain seem able to sustain on whatever it find in the atmosphere provided that it have some source of light.

To avoid conflict with the rest of the world, the country where the craft landed chosen to send a copy of the artifact to each government of the world. After all, creating a new mushroom was just matter on pressing on the right color. In every one mind, the only usage of this thing was to save a VIP from a fatal situation. Like a bomb or a plane crash.
But thing changed rapidly, due to how easy it was to replicate the machine. Soon surgeon get there and on these and used them to perform hazardous operation. Then general started to use it on their elite commando and then on all their soldiers. After this thing escalate quickly as more and more famous people underwent the operation to definitely preserve themselves from life dangers but also form brain sickness like Alzheimer or Parkinson. And in less than a couple of year, in the majority of the country it would be impossible to take an insurance or a bank loan if you didn't have your brain made indestructible.

But things didn't stopped here. As people started to get used to their new condition, they realized that an indestructible object can be really practical in many situation. An African country surprised everyone by recommended to its citizen to from now only using their brain as a washing sponge to clean their body. Their scientist had discovered that the modified brain had self cleaning property guarantying it to be free of any germ. And being indestructible, you could reuse it indefinitely. Experience proved there were right as this policy drastic reduced the number of infection. And soon the whole world was imitating them, scrubbing hard their bodies with their soapy brain.

With this, an other barrier had fallen and peoples started to find more and more creative use for their brains. In addition of cleaning your body, dishes, window or cars, it was discovered that you brain make a really good cookware. To protect itself from overheating, the modified brain emitted instantly any unwanted heat it was reviving, making it a perfect heat conductor. It allowed you to cook thing faster than what you can do with any conventional pan. And it was self cleaning! The brain shape is nor the most practical to cook thing the rapidly, the cookware store started to sell molds that you could use to press your brain in various shape, depending on what you would like to cook. Indeed, the transformed brain remained squishy and you were able to imprint it an other shape provided that you pressed hard enough on it.
On the other side of the thermometer, there was also nice surprises: the brain would refuse to yield a single degree to any object colder than the optimal body temperature. So anything bellow than 37 °C encased a brain would indefinitely preserve it's coolness. Perfect to keep you beer cold during summer.

In fact it seem they weren't a single domain were those new indestructible brain find a large number of usage, and this resulted in a massive jump the quality of life on the human kind. But this progress come to a terrifying cost…

It was discovered far to late that the operation add also a strong psychological effect. After become operated, the people started to become more carefree, which resulted, from most of them to a level of inhibition at grass level. And some were suspecting the mushroom shaped artifact to modify there patient more than one way. The customs rapidly changed toward what we would call total debauchery in any other times as the humanity entered in the Brain Age...