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Tellios listened to her question, he nodded. his head and looked around the place, gathering some other information as he was going. He then spoke, as he was mustering what to say to begin with.

"For starters, I do not have what you call parents. I was not wrong in saying I was created. I am humanities cruel attempt at something great. So to speak. If you wish to see what is under these clothes, this... 'skin'" He said with quotations on the skin using his hands. "You must tell me if you do or not. That is a decision only you can make."

He had gotten a little off topic but still on topic as he was going.

"I.. Lived on the run for the most part, moving from city to city doing odd jobs with nothing to sate my own informational capacity or even challenge my intellect. So eventually one day I was working and some.. Lady came in and handed me a note and left after that. Not even a name. The letter was made out to me."

The name was actually under his created name; 'Project;Legion' his cybernetic mind slowly started into a deep decent. He began running many codes to get everything back up and running, but only managed to get certain systems running as is. Most of the things were still fresh and still couldn't get over it, he had hoped he would find a code that would fix most of the issues he had in his body. since he was unfinished and a failure.

"Then I got onto a boat and came here. That's... it for the most part." He said. He wasn't wrong as he looked at Xenia, he was even more curious about her. Though as he was about to ask a question the tea and hot chocolate was placed in front of them with the waitress saying 'Enjoy'.

He didn't care so much about anything. He shrugged most stuff off as played the waitress off as a joke. Though he then opened his mouth and caught himself. He wasn't sure if asking for her measurements would be a good thing to leave in her information in his mind, that wouldn't be something she would want to tell him just yet.

"Considering Mr. Potter had spent most of his time running around the school and taking on creatures and other wizards and neglecting his school work, it makes much sense. Judging by how the teachers mark, and the headmasters strict rulings even though the events that Harry and his friends go through has nothing to do with how they are marked. Sneaking out when studying could be done is just another way of failing-" He stopped himself there. Realizing that he just did what she did earlier and he laughed it off a bit and took a sip of his tea.

"Though that it is my turn. I am curious about you, you seem more interesting then you give yourself credit for Xenia. So before you figured it out you led a normal average life so to speak? Did you have a significant other? A Group of friends? How were the schools you went to in the past?"
 

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All Xenia could do was blink. She was not stupid by any means, but her grades were only average. Painfully average, in fact. She had scored in the exact middle of her class in high school, more than once. However, Tellios's quick explanations didn't click with her all at once, and he mind jumped for spot to spot, trying to keep up with his information.

Of course, she nodded a lot as he spoke. She had spent far too long in the middle to not know how to fake like she was understanding him perfectly. Nodding usually helped. Meanwhile, her mind kept up the race to try to decode what we was saying. He was created? Was that just a fancy term for sex? He had a codename? Like spies? Was he a spy?

The waitress provided a much needed excuse for Xenia's brain to catch up. She thanked her, wondering how she managed to be so happy and bubbly all the freaking time. She took her hot chocolate and sipped it. It wasn't too scalding hot, which was contrary to how most places served it. Tellios continued talking, this time about Harry Potter, which Xenia could follow a lot easier.

Finally, He was done talking and he looked at Xenia as if he expected a reply to all of that. OF course he did, and Xenia was going to do her best to make it sound proper and scholarly. She tried to sum up much of what he was saying, convincing herself that her mind was like a library and she just had to sort it out.

Only a few mere seconds had ticked by, but it felt like en eternity to Xenia. He was expecting and answer, and she had to give one soon. Suddenly, and without thinking, she heard herself blurt out the first thing she could think of.

"Wait so you want to show me what's under your clothes?"

Super smooth. That'd win him over.
 

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Tellios noticed that she did not understand most of what he had said. So he would probably have to say it over again. Just as he was about to explain it. He heard her say.

'Wait so you want to show me what's under your clothes?'

He blinked a few times himself, a few error messages popped up in his head inside his optics as he just kind of sat there for moment dumb struck. He shook it all off after coming to. He sighed.

"To put it frank. I was a lab experiment, I got out, and now after a few years of trying to fit in, I am here." He put his hand on the table. And a few spider looking machines crawled out from under the clothes down his arm. "I am made up of these little nanobots."

He stopped it there and he tapped his fingers and the little bots scurried back into his arm, he was ensuring no one saw them but the intended party. Which happened the way he wanted it to. He looked at Xenia and smiled slightly, trying to keep that long answer he gave into the readers digest.

"Easier to understand Xenia? you looked a little lost I am sorry for that." He was sorry but she could have said something but then again he didn't stop much as is. The only thing on his mind right now was how she was going to react to his nanobots. That was it. He didn't want to lose an acquaintance so early. She seemed interested, just not in the ramblings of a robot.
 

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Xenia tried to hide her embarrassment by taking a long drink of her hot chocolate and focusing on listening to Tellios's words. He had made it much more clear this time, but he probably thought she was an idiot now. She was not! She was perfectly intelligent, she just didn't necessarily excel at schoolwork type thinking. Besides, if he was a robot, wouldn't he really think she wasn't smart.

Suddenly, being with Tellios made her a bit nervous. Not because he was a robot (or at least, that's what she'd gathered) but because she felt like there was a huge chasm between them. He was definitely polite when he wanted to be, and was nice to be around, but she felt like she leagues under him. She wasn't as smart as him, and probably not as strong as him. Once he figured that out, would he even want to spend time with her anymore? Heck, he'd probably already figured that out and was looking to escape as she sat there. She struggled to find the right words to explain her feelings.

"Ah, yeah. That makes much more sense, thanks. Sorry about that. I'm not stupid or anything, sometimes I just don't get things the first time. I get good grades in school, don't worry. I mean, decent grades anyway. ... I don't fail."

Well, it wasn't like she had made herself sound good, but maybe had patched things up a bit? She wished she were back in her dorm, playing a video game. It would even be better if Tellios would be playing with her, that way at least she'd have something more to focus on than just his confused face. She had better conversations when her hands were busy anyway. However, all she could do for that moment was sit and wait it out.

Maybe she should have gotten food or something.
 

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"I never said that you had inadequate intelligence. To not fail classes shows your own intelligence. I am sure you excel at video games and anything else you find interesting, and.. I do wish to have these encounters more often."

He got a feeling that she wanted to leave at some point, was it him? He was curious as a green text appeared in his eyes. As if mocking him it said. As a rectangle started to move across his eyes words formed.

She's loosing interest.

Miralis's face slowly turned from confused to slightly worried. More text began to pop up. Slowly his mind began to change gears, the errors in his code began to slowly surface in his head once again, he wasn't sure on what to do as is.

Do Something...

Tellios started to come up with logical situations, going somewhere else, going on a walk, maybe testing out her powers. Seeing how she is, what she is like. She dd state that she liked playing video games so he decided to try that on for a change, then he would have to grab his system, unless he could get away with using his systems and play it in the corner of his eye.

"Do you wish to leave and go.. Somewhere to play?" His optics cleared up as he sighed. Then quickly responded as a text popped up in his head. "I mean Video Game wise. Like with each other that way. Or against."

He said rubbing his own eyes. It took a moment for it all to sink in as the Green Text appeared again, covered in black it stated.

Good job Tellios.

He screwed up something fierce. Now he wasn't sure if she wasn't going to get up and just leave him there, or if he should even leave. He pulled his hand away and put a smile on and put his hand on the table, just in front of his cup of tea.

"Unless you want to have something to eat. That's a good idea too. Remember, my treat."
 

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Xenia's eyes lit up. She couldn't help it. She had never really met anyone like Tellios before. It was as if she could read his mind. Could robots do that? Either way, there was little she could do to contain her apparent excitement. She had thought she was boring him with talk of video games earlier. All the people she had met earlier had liked them a bit, but not enough to sustain a whole conversation on them. Xenia, on the other hand, could go on for ages and ages about them, without taking a breath. She couldn't believe that this man she had met only a few hours ago would want to play with her.

"I have a Wii back in my dorm! We could play Super Smash Brothers or something! I mean, you know, I think we can take out drinks to go, they wouldn't mind, would they? I mean, if I pay. Or were you paying? I don't even care."

She was smiling more than she had been since she arrived. The words were rushing out of her mouth, but she enjoyed the feeling. It was like she finally had a friend again.

"What kind of music do you like? Maybe we can talk about stuff like that while we play. I don't know about you, but I find I'm a thousand times better at talking when my hands are busy."

She stood up, her dress ruffling. She dug some dollars and coins out of the pocket in her dress and tossed them onto the table. She wasn't really bothering at math, but she didn't need the change. Maybe she was overreacting, or, well, she knew she was overreacting. It was exciting to have a friend that shared her interests. Even Paul, she best friend from high school, had grown bored of playing with her after a while.

But maybe, just maybe, this once wouldn't. Maybe this place really was different.

"Anything else you need here? I have some snacks at my dorm, so if you don't need anything else...?"
 

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He nodded his head at her. She was up to the idea. Even then he raised an eyebrow at it. He was interested in why she had become so preppy. He was unfamiliar with the game, so he decided to look it up in his head as he was going.

"Super Smash? I have not played that yet." He rubbed his chin as she got up and he pulled out his wallet and tossed some money on the table at an attempt before her. They both tossed it at the same time and he laughed a moment. "Don't worry I got it. Take yours back I said it was my treat."

He got up and listened to her ask if she needed anything. So he did give it some thought. He did want some wine or something to drink as is. Even thought he could do with out he wanted something to drink for himself as is.

"I got somethings I need to pick up. Tell ya what. I will got get a few things for myself and I will meet you at your dorm room." He said with a smile. "I should be about an hour, do you need anything? A Drink or anything? I'll pick it up and bring it over."
 

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Xenia Asgonne

An hour? What was with this guy and disappearing? Though she relished the idea of getting out of her dress so she could sit any way she pleased, she couldn't help but be curious. Did he have to recharge or something? Did he have batteries? She tried to shrug it off. Even though their date had felt incredibly short, almost forty-five minutes had passed. She sure hoped that a robot that was practically human had a longer battery life than her Wii-mote. Either way, an hour was good.

But, a drink? Like, alcohol? Where she had come from, the drinking age was twenty-one, and she was only nineteen. She had been far too much of a good girl to ever drink outside the law, even though many of her classmates weren't so pleasant. Was Tellios twenty-one? He sure didn't look that old, but who knows. The nanobots probably hid age well. Hopefully he wasn't too old, or inviting him over wouldn't have been the best idea. She made a mental note to ask him basic questions about himself during their next meeting instead of just rambling on about Harry Potter and seeing under his clothes like an absolute moron. Hopefully the more time she spent with him, the easier it would get.

She wasn't sure if there was a drinking age at Starlight Academy, but she liked to think that the school wouldn't let a bunch of young kids with crazy magic powers run around the school. Should she, though? Would she? Well,she was in a new place, with new friends. She gave him a determined expression and gathered up her money from the table.

"Let's do it. Buy some good shit and meet me in an hour. I'll give you a crash course in Smash Brothers. I bet I can beat you drunk." She shot him a wink. Sometimes, maybe it was best to live on the edge.
 

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He nodded his head as she was talking. It wasn't like he needed to rest at all, or recharge himself. He was still at almost full power. He had a saver mode set up that Even then he wouldn't need much time to restore it to spending a few hours with someone. Just find a place to go and charge for a while. Either way he wanted to just get something nice for himself and her.He walked out of the place as he waved to her as he was leaving the building.

"Depending on what you are better there Xenia, I may take you up on that bet." He said with a smile on his face as he turned around for a moment. His eyes covered by his eyelids as he then started to walk downtown to try to hit the liquor store before he headed over and set a timer for one hour in his head. He was going to see if he would made it in time, or to have time to spare as is.
 
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