War Bodies, or Warm Bodies
With you, it could have been either one.
I liked the snippet about Evalynn and her "maturation".
One of my characters had a similar evolution; going from an advanced interactive computer program called Ruby, through an independent android known as Pearl, and finally into Pearl's creation, a mix of human and cybernetic systems called Jade.
Jade became a mother too.
Thanks, I kinda got the idea in a way from what you’d said.
Can you imagine the look on your kids faces if you’d told them, “Yes, I was once a robotic spider that pillaged and enslaved a space station”?