The Metal Mind

The next two nights were torture for the humanoid.

His mind was creating new fantasies about having his own human family.

He would have a beautiful wife and a handsome son.

It was a dream that other humans and humanoids attained. Most humanoids created their idea of human families. Humans tended to stay to their human forms. Humans and humanoids rarely lived together in marriage.

Humanoids lived longer than humans.

As such, humanoids often explained that life with a human was far from what was ideal.

The thought never crossed Aden’s mind until he had seen that woman and that innocent child.

It was though they had been waiting for him.

How many nights had he dreamed of that woman dressed in red silk lying beside him? How many times had he wished to teach good morals to a child of his own? It would be a perfect world.

Each passing day Aden became more restless.

He wished he had followed after that woman. It seemed as though she and her son were nothing more than a far away dream.

What was the point of working? He worked every day without complaining. He did it for the good of society.

The lonely apartment he stayed in had gray walls and very little furniture. He did not need a large kitchen. He was the only one to eat. He did not need a large bed. Only large enough to fit his body for a few hours of rest.

The same space he had lived in suddenly became smaller. He bumped into the door frames and disliked sleeping on a thin mattress.

His whole life seemed more miserable than ever. In his effort to be human, it became clear that he had not noticed his life before. He was not human. And could never be.

The thought made Aden much less hopeful.

He wondered why he wished so desperately for a human wife and son. The only conclusion he could make left him empty.

It could have been the result of his program.

***

“Aden. Report to maintenance. Your system is unstable.”

The continued presence of metal and steel suffocated Aden. He sometimes seen a flame of red hair just at the end of the hallway. It would disappear before he could reach it. A mischievous smile would come from nowhere and vanish into thin air.

This human dream was haunting him.

As Aden walked up the stairs to have his system repaired, he wondered if it would mean that his memory of those humans would disappear…

The moment he entered the room Aden had already made his mind. He kept the issue he had been struggling with to himself. Returning to a perfect world was not his desire anymore.

The truth was not ideal, but it gave him a taste of reality.

Aden smirked to himself. He had begun to enjoy the pain. A dangerous addiction.

As Aden walked to his apartment he found himself facing a small boy with bright blonde hair.

The boy stared at him and trembled in fear. He ran off and Aden chased after him.

The boy was covered in oil stains. His smile was gone. The woman was no where to be seen.

“Over there! The thief went that way!”

Police drones flew overhead and singled out the child. Aden looked carefully in his coat and pulled out a laser. He aimed it at the done that had spotted the boy and opened fire.

The red laser zipped through the air and destroyed the police drone immediately.

The boy looked at him in confusion.

“Run! Get out of here!”

The boy gasped and began running.

Aden quickly took a detour to hide himself from the crowd.

He had reacted without even thinking about the consequences. His head was scrambled, but the only thing he hoped was that the innocent boy could escape.

***

The boy was innocent.

Aden did not have any doubt. Of course, he did not have any evidence of the boy’s innocence either.

Based on his assessment, Aden estimated that the boy was in a bad situation. He was stealing something. A bottle off some kind. Perhaps it was for the woman. She must have been injured…

Aden’s metal mind calculated and recalculated the odds off meeting the child again.

He could help.

He had access too most facilities in the city. He could easily get a few supplies without any issues.

Aden reflected.

The boy is not from theirs city. Not him nor the woman. They were too different from on the humans that lived here in the city.

Humans of this city always wore plain clothes. They were simple and quiet. The woman’s red hair should have been the obvious sign of this fact.

Aden flushed.

He was so distracted with her beauty that hat he had overlooked it completely.

In any case, Aden decided to wait for it the boy to return. It was only a matter off time before he would return too steal supplies.

The look on that boy’s face was proof enough.

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