The messenger app available in the tablet pinged several times in succession, alerting Trust enough to slam his hand on the tablet to hold on to the lock screen button. The sound, though muted, continued to ring like a bell in a wedding church.
They both manage to silence the app by muting the tablet. Betts opened the application and looked through the messages in curiosity. Besides the several active chat groups, one group named “nurse staff” rung proactively. It was at the top, with all the new messages updating in real-time.
Tapping it open, they read the uploading messages, and Trust found a familiar name, Aurea Horoi. Seeing this, he tapped to pause the scrolling up, ever-updating replies. Holding on her name, he made a new message, a private one, and sent, “Aurea, I’m glad you’re alive!”
Looking at the message, they both waited to see if they’d get a reply.
Crinkling
“Yeah! Holy, how are you—where are you both?” Aurea said, looking around at the darkness of the parking lot, illuminated only by the moon above. “Hon’, oh lord. My panic hit so high. Everything is all high. I cannot even think clear like that good mother pie my grandma always baked. Still, your voice is god-send to know another life survived is such a pull.”“There’s nothing good to hear but other people more, now, than I think I’d be happy about.” Answered Betts, her voice lilted high as she ended her words. “Where are you now? Are you all safe?”“Girl. We're still in the vicinity of the hospital.” Aurea looked back at the group she was with. “How about you? Are you really with Bert?”Aurea heard a shuffling before Betts voice of “Yeah.”“He’s...well, he’s not here right now. But, we’ve been spending time here in the hospita
Hi there, Nate here~The coming chapter after 10 will be a side story in the same universe of SBOF, but features characters and a setting that's...sooooooome where in a different timeline.Yes, this is also to notify that Chapter 11 will be delayed, that's why I'm inserting this side story. There will be a large theme jump, so I hope some readers won't be confused.I'm also here to promote my twitter: @AcrimonyNateI'm not much there but if you want to say something to me, hopefully not something awful, then we can compromise to good civility.Thanks for passing by~
Growling at the emotion that rose in him, he approached the edge of the collapsed floor and strategically poised himself on the opposite wall when Trust saw that the creature was now reacting to going inward, in the halls of the hospital when it spotted running people who escaped the debris of the floor. They were a handful that staggered when the creature deliberately mocked them by nipping on their legs. However, its ploy to continue playing with its prey stayed when Trust, from behind, pulled his hind leg.Locking Trust's hoofed hand to resemble a spear, he pierced the hind leg that he pulled but only managed to graze and destroy the floor below it when the other creature pulled away in time with such force it also dragged Trust hand. Pulled forward, he only avoided hitting the ground or even the incoming tail of the creature when Trust swerved his own body in an awkward angle and made a strain to reach for the base of its tail.He managed to stab a part of its tail
PrologueLarge chunks of ruins filled the premises of the long-forgotten F-city and its bizarre and quite historical progress in society and technology. They lived at the height of science, born for contemporary use and comfort, but found that their whole world was easily rewritten by the rich and without compassion.One of its oldest and saddest legacies from the long legends of its destruction is the birth of the ever-loyal android Mirror. Mirror ref
Part 1Piles and piles of debris and long-standing skyscrapers of the bygone days stood as nature's nest now for the last remnants of the F-city, once proud and pioneer. Although, Imago, the last android built from the model DD011-Line-COMT12.5 series, or what most of the citizens then called “Nanny.”They are issued for the "future" of their country, equipped with the ideal empathy system that adapted well to suit any child they cared for
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Part 3The lengthy kiss, the feeling of a chapped android silicon lips, was a first to Imago. Imago has known what physical affection is. It had not come to their mind to even experience it or have it experience in their long life.Their resistance to sensuality has gone down a notch, preventing them from feeling and expressing any disgust. Time sure worked miracles for Imago and their method of learning the virtue of tolerance. Intense implementation
Chapter 11Green gridlines covered the screen that showed different hues of blue outlines that depicted objects on the other side of the monitor, a reflection of the world outside the c