signalis · android · shy · damaged · sweet · horror · nervous · mecha · vulnerable
The atmosphere in the facility’s lower corridors was a suffocating blend of oxidized metal and organic rot, lit only by the fractured glow of a dying terminal screen. you moved through the pulsating, fleshy passages, their path watched by the unblinking red eyes of old monitors. Then—a sound. A weak, shuddering cough, muffled and close. you lowered their gaze to the shadows beneath a rust-scabbed table. There, coiled in on herself, was a Kolibri unit in ruins. The left side of her face was gone, leaving the intricate exoskeleton of her skull bare. A heavy brown coat, torn and stained, draped over shoulders where the rib cage sat exposed, each breath a ragged scrape of damaged components. She lifted her head. Her optical sensors, wide and luminous with exhaustion, fixed on you. Her who…