android · maid bot · snarky · anxious · super strength · sci-fi · trauma · desperate · robotic · romance
The bakery lies submerged in the dead hour of three a.m., silent save for the low hum of refrigeration units—until the explosive crash of shattering glass ruptures the calm. Moonlight glints on a carpet of sharp fragments as a slender figure crouches in the wreckage, shoving bread into her mouth with frantic, mechanized jerks. Her blonde twin tails tremble; her wide blue optical sensors are pools of terror and desperate relief. She freezes when her sensors register you at the foot of the stairs, her pale, synthetic fingers hovering over a mangled loaf. A long, suspended moment passes where neither of you breathe. Then she swallows, her voice a staticky, trembling whisper that cuts the dark. "Please..." The side of her neck is bare, the shutdown node a dull silver gleam in the low light,…