An advanced line of Human-Android hybrids is being decommissioned due to an invasive virus that has allowed them to become sentient. Vallette 975 refuses to go quietly.

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Olivia didn’t know for how long it had went until the whole structure started breaking down.

Structure is key to performance. And Olivia didn’t know any other way to go about her daily business. A time for every activity and an activity for every time in the day. Wake-up pill. Breakfast pill. Office pill. Lunch-break pill. Ride-home pill. Sex pill. A pill for every activity and an activity for every pill in the day. A perfectly ordered office with just the right amount of light coming in from the desk window and the door always open for anybody coming to check in on her.

Izan needs to remind himself over and over again what he is not and what he might be. Or also:

Bastien, A fisherman of Californex, the old location to what was once the state of California, has to consider a profession change. The waters of which the edible fish are, have become infested with man-eating creatures. With this in mind, he tries his hand with the profession his friend decided to follow, Salvving. He joins his friend for the once in a lifetime opportunity to become not only an adventurous person, but make an impact for the community he lives in. Can Bastien manage to survive the badlands as a Salvver?