Glitch of the Heart: Alien Military Medical Romance (Space Marine Hospital Book 1) by Harlyn Moxie

Author:Harlyn Moxie [Moxie, Harlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473575120
Publisher: KDL Publishing
Published: 2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

22

Xintari

I pass by three vacant-looking cyborgs on my way back to my allocated docking bay.

One was human once, the other two were originally of Fragen descent. One of those is the soldier Maeve was trying to help the other day, but not one of them appears to be anything but an empty shell.

They are dead inside.

What would it take for them to reanimate? I wonder, as I continue on my way. A mate of their own?

Mine is working wonders for me.

Even though I have been made cyborg, I have never felt so alive.

I do not recall ever feeling this way, even when I was fully Draavian.

How is it possible to feel more myself as a cyborg, than when I was actually myself?

I pull up short when I detect an intruder in my station.

“Cyborg 16Y2463, what are you doing away from your cubicle?”

Careful to keep my face deadpan, I tilt my head at the lab coat wearing female.

“My legs were twitching. After an unsuccessful recalibration, I concluded that the issue was muscular, and as such, a walk would assist the issue to abate.”

Looking down at my sturdy legs, I return my blank stare to the engineer. “It appears to have been successful.”

“Hmm,” she acknowledges before tapping at the screen. “I think your tracking beacon may be faulty. It recorded you as present in your bay during your absence.”

“My system suggests it is fully operational. I was not walking far from here. Could it be that the tracker is not faulty, but rather requires an adjustment in sensitivity?” I suggest as I sit back in my bay and covertly retrieve the tiny tracker I had hidden

“Maybe,” she says, still swiping at the screen. “Unless you’re glitching again in some way. We haven’t had this many issues with a cyborg for nearly a year. That one was Draavian too, and had to be thoroughly reprogrammed numerous times before he conformed to expectations. I suspect some specific code you share in your genetic sequencing must reject the cybernetic grafts, but we haven’t been able to find any commonalities between the two of you.”

She taps at the screen a little longer and then turns to me.

“I’ve turned it up as high as it’ll go. Try a walk around the outer corridor now, and I’ll see if we can track your movements accurately. It’d do no good to lose you on the battlefield.”

I give a shallow nod, stand in a robotic manner, and march away, carrying the locater beacon in my pocket.

Since spending time with Maeve, I have found that even my gait has become more relaxed and natural in appearance, and to avoid the inevitable attention that would arise because of it, I must take precautionary measures and move as a cyborg should.

It would not be ideal if I was caught as a non-conformist, leading to further thorough reprogramming. It sounds as if the other malfunctioning cyborg mentioned by the engineer may have had a mating issue too. I do not wish to be locked in forever as her description of that cyborg suggests.

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