Maria Robespierre is one of the last remaining Roboticist in a world where technology is closely guarded and robots are hated and feared. But when an inexplicable anomaly causes one of her newest robots to malfunction, she knows it’s just the sort of happy accident Earth’s government has been waiting for in order to push through stricter anti-robot legislation. The inevitable destruction of thousands of her robots looms near. Is there anything Maria can do to save them? Is there anything she won’t do in trying?“Children of Ymir” is the prequel short story to K. S. Daniels’ debut science fiction novel The Valkyrie Profiles, book I of The Valkyrie Trilogy.