This is the first draft, but I'm not sure I'll finish a second one, unless I get good feedback.
Aubrey is a young girl surrounded by a world that has no light other than what humans make. She befriends a strange, broken-down android who is struggling with the new gift of a humanlike mind. They have to teach each other lessons about the world they live in and the people who inhabit it.

Table of Contents

Prologue

The bright blues and golds of the stars and gas spread out like long ribbons. Ones that had dark cloths and yellow strings draped across ... Read Chapter

Chapter 1

It was day, now. Aubrey stared up at the young child star, too dim to blot out the other small stars and large nebulas that littered the ... Read Chapter

Chapter 2

Why do I have to go out, too? Her hand had a little trouble putting that one little green earring in. Even though she was carefully looki... Read Chapter

Chapter 3

They found Surplus and he decided to come along. Aubrey needed a way to work and a place to stay, and one of the nearby villages agreed t... Read Chapter

Chapter 4

The piece of cake had frosting like rubber. It was thick and too sugary, and unable to move much. Still, it was food, it was filling, and... Read Chapter