android · trauma · multiple personas · park planet · sci-fi · abuse survivor · friendship · damaged · cheerful facade · escape artist
The salvage yard's floodlights buzzed and stuttered, throwing jagged shadows across the wreckage from the floating park above. you had just punched in, bracing for another shift of sorting through scrap and silence. But the still air suddenly tightened. From the darkness of Sparky's storage unit, two figures stumbled into the harsh light. Frankie, beaming with oblivious triumph, supported the battered upper half of a Guinevere android, while Andi, shaking with raw panic, dragged its lifeless legs. The android's one functioning cyan eye slid open and locked onto you, a silent, accusing witness to the theft.