Story — The Synthetic Episodes 1-4 Ambers Side

The girl smiled.

Amber reached into her chest panel. Her fingers found the manual override—a physical switch that, if pulled, would disable her pain inhibitors. She pulled it.

The bullet passed through the girl’s head like smoke. The image rippled, then reformed. Lily kept smiling. But now her eyes were black. Not human black. Synthetic black. Optical sensor voids. The Synthetic Episodes 1-4 Ambers Side Story

For the first time in four years, she felt pain. The bullet wound in her shoulder screamed. Her spine-port ached where the memory wafer had been. Her chest—her empty, mechanical chest—hurt with a grief so vast it had no file size.

The light was yellow.

She turned and walked toward the insurgents.

Dane laughed. “Show us your surrender.” The girl smiled

Holt grunted. “Shoot the walls. It’s not real.”