Aya is an adopted child, with a loving mother, sister, and grandfather.
Her intellect was always well beyond her outward age, which led to her being neglected by her birth mother. Connie, her adoptive mother, loved her from the first meeting, as did her sister, Coral. Her grandfather supported her in anything she wanted to do, but his income sources were less than legitimate.
After she reprogrammed his main computer systems, she designed a system that would look vulnerable on the surface, but lure attackers in, and capture their data so they could be eliminated.
Unfortunately, Aya missed critical data, and her sister was kidnapped. From that point onward, the innocent girl was replaced with a cold unflinching being of pure logic, and repressed chaos. She learned how to turn memories into data, and meld human with machine.
She learned it a little too well, and struggles to maintain her humanity before the machine swallows her consciousness. If that wasn't bad enough, she struggles to maintain her hold on her corporeal form, and not evolve into pure energy. She knows that the linear evolution laid out before her is a trap.
How does she know? Cybernetic memories hidden in the static, in the ether surrounding the solar system. However, is her alternative also a trap, or a way out?
Weekly schedule is Thursday, at 7 AM Atlantic time. Patreon releases are always several chapters ahead of Scribblehub. I have several novels being published, one for each day. They are not translations, but original works.