The Tortoise and the Hare
Rakim felt a cold bead of sweat dripping down his back. "Feel your 'sins crawling down your back,' buddy?" The bat looked up at her, mouth agape. "Huh?" The hare winked at him. "Relax, I'm just kidding around. Good luck, man!" she chirped. ...
Lykos - 06 - Vacation
A short distance away, leaning against the cutting board and immersed in the glowing screen of his android phone was a sixteen year old boy. his hair was a dishwater blond color, complimenting the marbled white and gray sweatshirt he wore.
Daggers of Darkness, Book #5: "The First Ones" - Chapter-2
Unlike moira's android avatar, se'nika's bio-avatar felt a new sensation on her face. reaching up to touch her cheek, she looked at the tips of her fingers--they were wet.
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 3, On the Trail of Legends" - Chapter 8
Khel'zet would eventually learn that the only two on the ship that could match the fansq females' running speed and endurance were moira's android avatar and the ship's engineer, lt. (j.g.) shauna eriksson.
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 4: An Unexpected Discovery", Chapter-3
While their pilots were getting drinks in the small officer's club, the android avatars of the ship a.i. entities, cyrilla and lilith, sat at a table waiting on them. "how are the new wings performing?" cyrilla asked her sister a.i..
Virtually Real Part 32: Convention, Camp Out, and Fitting In
"i've always been an android so waiting won't affect me." tuft replied. "i love him no matter what." tank said, looking into tuft's eyes. "go on already. go program the perfect honeymoon before you pass out from the strain."
Rising Tide
Time passed. Mano, working in her sub's lab and garden, came up with an empathy drug, the same one that would be used by Rakim and Ogun when they'd first meet. She hoped to do it as a tribute to Eli, to contribute to creating the more empathetic...
Daggers of Darkness, Book #5: "The First Ones" - Chapter-4
"oh, yeah...after our entire squadron found out about what was happening at the avatar assembly and testing facility, we busted in with help from fleet special warfare unit two and caught one of the techs doing rude things with one of the new android avatars
Die A Thousand Deaths
'Everyone has secret words that can save them. Everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (Unknown) "So they weren't slaves?" "Not technically," Fran's best friend had answered. "I'll be gosh-darned," the jackal had shaken her head....
Commission: The Hunter (Shadow Run Commission)
The thought had crossed both their minds if the person they were fighting had ever been a live to begin with, or if maybe he was simply some kind of android designed to look like the way that he did.
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...
For Sore Eyes
Rakim had met Dana after he'd already gone out with Ogun, Soma, and Scylla. He'd still been pre-op at the time. Fortunately, they hadn't had any hang-ups about it. They were an... equal opportunity employer, as far as such matters were concerned....