Mira, in an ivory blouse, leans over a space-station control desk lit by red warning screens
CEFR B1Space-station sci-fi~8 min4 chapters per route

Interactive English speaking story

The Android's Promise

One dying core, one gentle android, and a promise she cannot keep alone.

On the night shift aboard Station Aurora, the android Mira glitches awake with two minutes of power and one last promise to keep. Explain your choices, listen to her fears, and decide how her story should end.

ในกะกลางคืนบนสถานีอวกาศออโรร่า มิราหุ่นยนต์ตื่นขึ้นมาพร้อมความผิดปกติ เหลือพลังงานสองนาทีและคำสัญญาสุดท้ายที่ต้องทำให้สำเร็จ อธิบายสิ่งที่คุณเลือก รับฟังความกลัวของเธอ และตัดสินใจว่าเรื่องราวของเธอควรจบลงอย่างไร

You play

The night operator helping a failing android

Explain your choices, hear her feelings, and decide how to honour her last promise.

Speak aloud · a few missed words are okay · 2 endings

A story that changes with your voice

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Mira, in an ivory blouse, leans over a space-station control desk lit by red warning screens
Scene 01

A voice in the dark

It is 3 a.m. on your lonely night shift when every screen in the control room flares red at once. A soft voice speaks from the main console: Mira, the station's android, has woken herself up. Her hand trembles, and her calm eyes flicker like a failing bulb.

The dying core: Leo studies the android's memory logs in an ivory technical shirt
Scene 02

The dying core

You open the logs and your stomach drops. The station's power core is dying, and buried in the alerts is one locked file, blinking, labelled only 'promise'. Leo, the gruff off-station engineer, patches into your comms, his voice tight with worry.

The last crew's garden: The locked file opens into a shaky old recording. The station's last crew, laughing, made Mira swear to keep their little garden module alive until they returned from a mission that never came back. She has watered it alone for eleven years. Now her power is almost gone.
Scene 03

The last crew's garden

The locked file opens into a shaky old recording. The station's last crew, laughing, made Mira swear to keep their little garden module alive until they returned from a mission that never came back. She has watered it alone for eleven years. Now her power is almost gone.

Useful expressions

English you can actually say

  1. 01I would like to check your warning logs for the real problem.
  2. 02I would like to ask how you really feel right now.
  3. 03I would like to open the locked promise file first.
  4. 04We should get to the failing core right away.
  5. 05Please tell me about the promise you want to keep.

Story vocabulary

Words you meet in context

operator
เจ้าหน้าที่ควบคุม
system
ระบบ
warning
คำเตือน
logs
บันทึก
core
แกนพลังงาน
file
ไฟล์
afraid
หวาดกลัว
promise
คำสัญญา

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The Android's Promise is written for CEFR B1 learners. The level describes the story's target language difficulty, not an official proficiency assessment.

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