“I had to break them,” Lief says, voice cracking. Her pale eyes are wide, hands shaking with the blue blood of her fellow androids.

“You were going to turn me off for them, but there’s nothing wrong with me. I’m not malfunctioning. I’m not broken!”

Lief, your first android and, at one point, your proudest creation. She’d been designed to be your friend.

A virus could’ve taken over, a circuit could’ve glitched—it made her horribly possessive of you. Driven her to this point.