Mirage | A flash fiction story

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The mirage emerged on the horizon, hovering over the scorching desert, fooling the bot's optical sensors.

This was an L1v3 unit. Despite what Atlanta Inc.'s marketing campaign would say, L1v3 wasn't alive. This was a machine devoid of real emotions — carefully made that way. It had improvements over the v2 machines, yes, but it was still just an L1.