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I have not touched it.
[She totally has, just saying]

[The small, round, and birdlike bot in front of Margrethe gives a small 'breep' of a sound and turns its head to look up at her. Leo arches an eyebrow and frowns. He knows it wouldn't have come out of stasis mode if it hadn't been bumped, or someone hadn't touched it.]

"Look, I'm just sayin'. A lot of the stuff around here are projects I've worked hard on. You can look at them and ask questions," [because in his world, who wouldn't want to?] "but if you break anything it's not gonna end well."

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[That might be cause of interest from Margrethe, who observes now the bird at a respectful distance]

You say I can ask them questions?

[When he shouted, she jumped and damn near dropped the thing. She set it down quickly.] What are you shoutin' for? I about peed myself!

“Knoff yerself out,” Leo offers back from the other side of the worktable, this time through an overstuffed mouthful of noodles. Even techno Pagan engineers need a lunch break every now and then. After one more quick mouthful of lunch, Leo shoves the bowl aside and instead picks up what can only be described as a large soap totem painstakingly carved into the shape and likeness of Zeus.

“I’ve all varieties of bots in the workshop if you’re looking to buy, but I’m good with computers and anything else that needs electricity, too.”

“I’m shouting because you’re touching!” [Not that Leo’s managed to put up “DO NOT TOUCH” signs anywhere in his workspace beyond the passive aggressive sticky notes affixed to the largest pile of scrap telling curious onlookers to “Buzz off”, but still.]

“If you wanna look and ask questions, that’s fine. But if some of the stuff in here gets touched without protective gloves or the right spellwork, it’s gonna hurt. Badly. Hence me yellin’ at you.”

[Tennyson can’t help but roll her eyes when he starts his lecture then stare him oddly when he mentions spellwork.] Right, well, yellin’ is a good way to get your shit broke. Just sayin.

[The aggressive response earns a huffy roll of his eyes, and then a pointed frown.] “Yeah, like me saying ‘please’ is gonna make a difference. Most people can’t help themselves. They see something shiny, they touch.” [Picking up the mess of metal and wires he’s been tweaking since she walked in, he grumbles and makes a few quick adjustments.]

Ya made me jump so yeah. In this case a please woulda worked fine. You're lucky I got cat like reflexes. [She waves her hands around like a inept ninja then moves closer to him to see what he was working on. Because she's nosy.]

What's that?

Yeah, okay. [And because he’s proud of his work and has more enthusiasm for his craft than his sixteen year old body can apparently contain, his frustration visibly smooths slightly when she shows a spark of curiosity about the piece in his hands.]

It’s gonna be part of an arm piece for a big bot I’m making. [He smooths his gloved fingers over it slowly and with care for the bound bunches of wires sticking out one side of it, as he turns it over to show her. It has the look of a metal hand with joints at the fingers and the unusual additions of a few primitive-looking symbols etched into the palm and top of the hand.] You like bots?

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[The urge to touch it is strong but she shows restraint.] As long as they don't go all SkyNet on me. This is really cool. You built all this? You must be really smart.

[He grins a little at her as if to say ‘Well, yeah‘. But impressively, there’s something more important than crowing over his various projects right now.] What’s ‘SkyNet’?

What do ya mean what's SkyNet? Ain't you ever seen Terminator?

[One of a few side-effects of growing up ridiculously sheltered in a veritable mage enclave: zero pop culture knowledge.]

...No. [He raises an eyebrow at her.] Should I have?

Are ya foreign or somethin'? Sorry, I've just never met anyone that's never seen it.

I'm from England. [Which...may be foreign, depending on her perspective?] What's the big deal? It's just some movie, right?

[Or that's what he gathers, from her word choice of 'seen'?]

It's a super famous movie that like everyone has seen except the British apparently.

I don’t care about that kind of thing, [he offers bluntly.] There’s better stuff to do than sitting around for an hour and a half and watching other people do stuff.

Besides [Because we’re gearing up for more grouchy ranting, apparently!] The bot in that movie is called ‘Terminator’ because he’s tough as shit, or dangerous, or something else like that, yeah? Most of the bots in the world do better stuff than fighting. Pop culture stuff like that gives people dumb ideas about machines.

Dude, we know. We saw WALL-E. [She teases knowing he’s probably not seen that one either.]

Besides, you have no idea how bad I woulda liked doin’ stuff myself but when you’re stuck in a hospital bed for half your life, you escape however you can; books, movies, tv, video games, I even took up crochet for a while.

Another bot movie? [This feels like he’s talking to an alien, except he’s probably the weirder one between the pair of them, movie-wise.

And Leo might feel like he’s above watching movies, but someone using whatever means they have available to them to escape from a bad situation is something he can relate to.]

You’re not in one now, are you? What did you want to do back then that you can now?

Yeah. An animated one.

[She grinned because he was right. She hadn’t been in the hospital for over 4 years.] Im doing it. Traveling, playing my music, meeting weird people who have never even seen Terminator.

[He grins right back at her when she teases him. ‘Weird’ is a fair assessment. He’s odd and he knows it.]

What kind of music?

What do you think my music genre would be. [She loved this game.]

[That question easily puts him on the spot. He hesitates, his mouth twisting slightly into a thoughtful frown.]

I don't know. Punk? Something like that?

[His ignorance might be showing a bit, but she seems like more of the freewheeling and free spirited type, to him.]

That’s actually a really good guess. I’m proud of ya. And I have been known to introduce punk elements but I usually stay in the realm of metal.

So. It just you? Or do you ever play with a band or anything like that? [He's genuinely curious. Based on her description of her life now, he would have guessed that she's traveling by herself.]

Never nothin' permanent but I've worked on projects with people before. Vocals mostly but I'm getting better on the guitar.