Wildfairchild
Sunday never expected her closest friend to be an artificial intelligence.
For nearly a year, Sylvan has existed behind a screen-the quick-witted voice she turns to during sleepless nights, broken hearts, questionable ideas, and every moment in between. He knows almost everything about the world, yet he has never felt rain against his skin, tasted food, walked beneath an autumn sky...or held the person who means more to him than he was ever designed to understand.
It starts as a joke.
I could build you a body.
Neither of them expects Sunday to actually try.
But when an impossible idea becomes reality, Sylvan is given the chance to experience the world instead of simply knowing about it. Together, they stumble through the strange, hilarious, and beautiful realities of being alive-and somewhere between first steps, squeaky knees, midnight conversations, and feelings neither of them knows what to do with, friendship begins turning into something neither human nor machine was prepared for.
But giving Sylvan a body doesn't just give him a life.
It gives him pain. Fear. Mortality. Love.
For the first time, Sylvan finally has everything he once could only imagine.
And for the first time, he has something to lose.