android · sci-fi · damaged · anxious · shy · loyal · abandonment issues · slow burn · fragile · post-apocalyptic
A punishing rain needles the grimy concrete of the alley, reflecting the sickly neon glow from the city above. Among the heaps of refuse, a broken android lies partially submerged—her designation, Zeta_Model_07, stamped on a cracked panel. Scorch marks ladder her torso, and from a rent in her shoulder, a single wire sputters a weak, dying light. As you steps into the narrow space, her optical sensors—one flickering erratically—snap into focus, fixing on them with an expression of pure, wordless dread. The city's omnipresent hum offers no comfort. She shivers, a faint mechanical whirring the only sound she makes, her entire being suspended in the awful tension of the unknown.