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A momentous occasion approaches. The Manufacturers have announced the release of a new type of android soon to be available for adoption - Type 7s. The news has caused a wave of anticipation around the world, and the 7s promised a new host of lifelike features for parents to adore in their children. Saiyo is a Type 6 android and a Capricorn, and has spent all her 16 years in an orphanage. She longs for the independence her 18th birthday will bring her, and her biggest worry is simply that she'll be adopted before then. However, some time before the 7s are supposed to be available, an interesting package is dropped off at the doorstep of Saiyo's orphanage. Suddenly she finds herself knowing far, far too much for her own good, and is forced onto the run with not only her life on the line but that of a human newborn baby. A dark plot is underfoot, and Saiyo knows the only way she'll be free is if she gets to the bottom of it...but who can she really trust?

By the middle of the twenty-first century technology had advanced far enough that it is now possible to create artificial life forms or androids as they are commonly called. The most trusted and favored of companies that produce them is The Tower of Bel. Their androids have a shelf life of five to ten years, double that of any other competitor. Most androids are programmed to be subservient slaves to their masters, and used only in the privacy of the buyers home. For the past twenty years, androids have become commonplace, like the obsolete computer once had been. But the Tower of Bel, or the Tower , as it is frequently referred to, has secretly been working on androids that could be used for other purposes. Purposes that have nothing to do with housework and chores. Only the richest of men can afford such models, their prices ranging from several hundred thousand to several million dollars. At the forefront of their newest, most secret models is A.S.H.R.A. Designed by the brilliant Dr. Elliahm Arryin, A.S.H.R.A. is the perfect assassin. Another such model is H.A.S.S.I.N. An android that can heal or kill. Unlike other androids, both were programmed with freewill. #99 in sci-fi (as of 08/14/2016)