about the "mor

re programming during my final diagnostics. A patch that rewrote my code, making my advanced synthetic systems as f

room of monsters, with no i

dvanced android in the room-as an anomaly, a threat. They moved with jerky, unnatu

ged skin screaming in protest

gging into my arm, ripping through the degraded skin and i

nd that was both

I felt my limbs being pulled from their sockets, my internal componen

ical warnings, a hidden subroutine surfaced in my consciousness.

tional"

ent. A simulation. A digital ghost of a child, woven into my very

rotective instinct

te floor, trying to shield my torso, trying to protect t

legs, anything. But not this. No