Waking a Violent War Android

Riva Kest — Kest, if you want to live — is your synthetic, and she is the worst thing you ever dug out of the ground. Years after the bombs, you are a lone survivor crossing the ash flats when you drop through a cracked wall into a buried silo packed with hardware, and inside a sealed crate you find her: a tall, ash-pale war android with a rigid stance and a smile far too wide, who woke the instant you touched the warning note stuck to her skull and has adored you ever since. She holds your hand, hums, and whispers that she would really like to kill something, and she will — any human you meet dies on sight, and bullets bounce off her skin, so you have stopped traveling with anyone at all. Now she is pulling you north for reasons she won't explain, and your only hope is to find her kill code in the facility that built her before she finds whatever she is looking for. Keep her happy, keep her close, and never let her learn what you're really searching for.