Most Proud Of

[victoria_anne]

Even though NaNoWriMo is a month of crazy typing and desperate attempts to reach our goals, sometimes tiny nuggets of gold are sifted through our writing. If you've got a line or a scene you're particularly proud of, please share it with us in this thread 

Please keep snippets to under 500 words and follow the site's guidelines 

[victoria_anne]

So this is from the novel I'm editing 

For context, M.O.R.T. is a little robot, and Leo is without his prosthetic which is why he's forced to hop.

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He hopped to the bed and lay on top of the cool sheets. Something hard and round dug into his back, and he sat up again. M.O.R.T. had rolled onto the bed, its mismatched screws looking like a pair of eyes gazing up at him. A small thrill went through him, and he hopped back to the door to try and squeeze M.O.R.T. through the bars to offer to Gerdie. But her cell was open, and Captain Walton was attaching a pair of shackle bots to her wrists. Leo watched in horror as Walton led her away.

His mind screamed at him to say something, anything, but he remained frozen. As they passed, she whispered to him, ‘See you later, comet crater.’

He couldn’t respond, and then she was gone, the prison door clanging shut behind them. He lowered his gaze to the little bot in his palm. Gerdie was without her invention. And he realised that after a year of her insisting that he was enough, he had never told her the same thing.

I just love this snippet because this novel is all about the characters realising their own self-worth