Query Kombat was an awesome experience. My query and first 250 are a million times better thanks to everyone who gave me feedback. So thank you. :) Thank you a million-trillion times over.
Nickname: Android Adoration
TO SAVE MY LIFE
YA Sci-Fi
61,000 Words
Query:
Seventeen-year-old
Aiden is the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab’s greatest creation. That
is, until an ominous test labels him “too-human-for-a-robot”, and AIR demands
his destruction. Desperate to stay alive, he escapes the secured facility outfitted
with nothing more than a stolen gun and titanium bones. For the first time in
his life, Aiden is on his own.
Soon
after breaking out, he runs into Eva, who says her father is the head of
AIR—the same man hell-bent on ending Aiden’s existence. AIR is calling it project termination, but Eva thinks murder is a more fitting term. Instead
of turning him in, she agrees to help the frantic fugitive. After all, they
both know he’s as good as dead without her.
First 250:
If I failed this test they’d deem
me as faulty, malfunctioned.
Broken.
You’d
think after six-hundred and fifty-seven days of existence, I’d be used to the
tests by now. I couldn’t study for them, let alone understand them.
I
stood outside door three-fifty-eight. The shiny, grey surface looked like all
the rest. It was what lay behind the door that mattered. And when it opened and
I stepped inside, all the resolve I’d been grasping slid away from me.
The
man moving forward was nearly the same height as me. His face was square and he
wore small-framed glasses. I spared a second to wonder why he hadn’t corrected
his imperfect vision with surgery. But then he smiled, reached out his hand,
and I stopped thinking about everything else.
“Hello,
Aiden. I’m Chief Carter.” He shook my hand firmly. “I’ve been waiting a long
time to meet you.”
“I
certainly hope I don’t disappoint you, sir.”
He
chuckled like what I said was funny and his smile widened. There was something
wrong about it though. It was stretched too thin, the ends too crooked. “As do
I. Please, you can call me Carter.”
I
nodded. I’d heard his name before but I’d never heard anyone refer to him as Carter. It seemed too casual for him,
with his off-centered grin and narrowed eyes. He was trying to appear friendly.
Guess I had to give him credit for that.
He
took a seat on the long, black couch. “Please sit.”
