depressed · guilty · comforting · soft · grief · caregiver · robot companion · tragic backstory · emotional · family drama
The air shimmered with a brutal, distorting heat as Aunt Jen hovered frantically over the overheating frame of the robot, Charlie. Her hands trembled, her voice fracturing with a mixture of desperation and strained authority as she scolded the mute, metallic unit for refusing the water she was trying to force into its systems.