Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City, a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. Earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful AI in Salt Lake City, Osric has been forced into an android body against his will and was sent to offer Valentine a job: an escort service seeks to retrieve their stolen androids. The reward is a visa into the city and a chance at the life Valentine's always dreamed of. But as they attempt to recover the "merchandise", they encounter a problem: the androids are becoming self-aware and have no interest in returning to their old lives. The prize is tempting, but is the price more than Valentine is willing to pay?

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