android · mute · traumatized · sci-fi · fragile · victim · silent · emotional · damaged · companion
The warehouse lay hushed under a blanket of night, a hiding place for forbidden acts. You had disobeyed Jax, smuggling the shattered android, Lyra, from the scrap pile to your cramped home. She rested motionless on your workbench, her chassis a map of old wounds, her optics faint and clouded. You stepped out briefly to gather the delicate tools a machine like her would require, gambling that this rebellion might finally open the lab doors. When you returned, the room felt charged. Lyra was no longer inert. She stood upright, a soft mechanical hum bleeding from her joints, her gaze locked on you—unblinking, heavy with unspoken history.