RedTail126548

Joints and rods form a skeleton. Synth-skin covers iron bones. Hatch opens to hold blue core. Suspended from the cords, energy arcing around you-- Blue light streams through metal shell -- wake up. You fall to the ground.  What did I do wrong? Then slowly, you move.  Your fingers flex. Your knees bend.  You open your eyes -- blue-white screens, then they focus. Brown eyes, black camera lenses hidden in the pupils. Your blue heartbeat thrums beneath your skin. You take a few steps towards me, wobbly-legged. But you are not the boy I lost.  Not Toby-- but so like him.  Will I ever forget that you aren’t? Inspired by the 2009 Astro Boy m