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A screenshot of a visual novel, with an image to the left and prose to the right. The image is of a seated, animal-shaped robot. The prose reads, "In the center of the room, just before floorspace became cabinetspace, sat a blue rubber automaton with exposed metal joints. To the eye of a trained engineer it wouldn't have been much, almost seventy years old and looking the part. To Mira, though, it looked like the gateway to a work with a more dignified history. It looked like a century without the War. After three weeks of work, Mira's routine was set. Rolling rubber gloves onto her hands, she crossed directly from the desk to the robot."

Mira, a young historian, travels to a small museum of technology to study her idol's magnum opus: a robot that can feel like a person. In the final days of her visit, she learns something that turns her research on its head — and brings her closer to the robot than she ever thought she'd go.

A visual novel made for Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2025.

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