am I human

Axel-1.4-6.5 exists because morality was deemed inefficient.

Created in a sealed facility to be the next stage of humanity-biologically dual, neurologically optimized, catalogued in charts instead of raised with hands-he has never been a child. Only a designation. Only they .

Until seventeen, when they give him a name, a mission, and a body that refuses to stay designed. Inserted into society as "Alex," he must pass for normal while everything he was built to suppress begins to surface: not his brilliance-his wanting . Not his perfection-his uncertainty .

The scientist assigned to watch him is instructed to observe, not intervene. But observation has never been neutral. And the longer she watches him learn to laugh, to stumble, to choose who he is becoming, the more she becomes something the laboratory never authorized: involved .

Because perfection was never meant to question its creators. And when a designed life begins to desire a future unwritten, the system that built it must decide whether he can be allowed to continue-or whether proving humanity's evolution requires erasing the evidence.