Wake up in the garden; get grass stained panties(Ami thread)

[Bean Bandit]

Ami laughs, nodding encouragingly. "Absolutely." she smiles, a few butterflies of her own flying around. Holding out a hand, "Let's go, Tellu-chan..." Ami blinks and falters, realizing the suffix that slipped out, blushing. "Do you mind that...?" she asks, half apologetically.

[Anastasia]

Laughing at it and going to hug you again, "It's okay, Ami-chan. I haven't had anyone call me that in a long time. It's nice...and I certainly don't mind you calling me that." With another smile, then nervous blush as she goes on, "Let's find the Professor, okay?

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It's not a terribly difficult task. In the Witches office, Miss Nakahime sleeps on the couch. In the far more pleasant surroundings of it, Professor Tomoe sits next to her, idly working with a handheld machine. His attention completely on it, he fails to notice you enter....

[Bean Bandit]

Ami raises her eyebrows, feeling terribly selfconscious. She glances up at Tellu, hoping the older girl has some sort of idea how to proceed, though even as she does, she meekly shuffles into the office itself, curious as to what's being done with Miss Nakahime..

[Anastasia]

"Ah...Professor," Tellu asks as you approach, loud enough to hopefully break his concentration. Nervous, she stops a little bit away from him, holding her hands in front of her demurely.

"Mmmm?" he asks absently, voice as far away as the stars above. Fidding with an imput dial on the handheld device, which almost looks like a Gameboy in design, he doesn't even glance up.

"Professor," Tellu asks again, voice catching a bit in embarrassed nervousness.

"Hmmm....oh, Tellu," he finally looks up, half shaking his head to dispel his distraction. "Ami."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods and smiles nervously, the anticipation just a bit much for her. After a moment..."H-How is she?" She asks, almost blurts, really, to fill the gap in the conversation.

[Anastasia]

"Resting," is the simple reply, as he turns his attention to you fully. An eyebrow is raised there in interest.

"Long hair, Ami? And..." Glancing at Tellu, he nods the same. Going on nicely enough, "It looks good on the both of you," Professor Tomoe nods, polite but not blowing his calm in enthusasim. Perhaps just as well, really..or not.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami blinks at that, and smiles, a bit shyly. "Thank you..." she murmurs, pleased, but...a little disappointed at being taken so completely in stride. Mentally shrugging, she glances at Tellu to gauge the other's reaction, this situation being somewhat new to her...

[Anastasia]

Still redfaced, Tellu nods her green topped head. "You like it," she asks quietly, looking back you way for reassurance.

"Ah..yes, both are quite becoming of you," he says dimplomatically, noting that he inspects Ami's longer hair with notable interest.  "Though...how did you manage it? Some form of shapechanging magic, perchance?

And..." he smiles, warming to the exercise. "Why don't the both of you turn around, as well, so I can see better?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles encouragingly at Tellu as the jade haired woman looks her way and nods confidently. It's so strange how she can be so shy...she's so pretty. Ami muses, her train of thought cut short by the professor's added attention.

"Something like that." Ami blushes, glancing to the older girl. "It was Tellu's idea, I just used my disguise pen for it." She waits for Tellu to turn before aquescing to the professor's request herself.

[Anastasia]

Blushing more at your admission, "It was..." she murmurs, turning as asked.

"Ah, I see," Professor Tomoe says kindly enough, inspecting Tellu's hair reasonably enough, while waiting on you. "It's a nice distraction," he admits as he does so.  Putting aside his device besides him, "Considering the past few days."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods, smiling a little more relaxedly. "Mm." she agrees, turning as expected. "I feel...quite a bit better." she admits, smiling at Tellu. "Tellu is wonderful company."

Ami glances at Tellu's body language. She hmm...She doesn't...have a for Professor Tomoe? Am I being silly? Not knowing what to look for, Ami suddenly wonders if she should be making an excuse to leave Tellu alone with the professor. But...no, it wouldn't do to leave her uncomfortable.

Ami nods inwardly, simply thinking for now. After all, playing matchmaker was more suited to Usagi's talents, and she wasn't fully confident in her hypothesis...

[Anastasia]

"It does look nice on both of you," he notes, taking considerably more time to admire your long hair versus Tellu's. "You can turn around now," he comments, chuckling lightly at the whole thing.

"Anyway, Ami," he says, moving onto matters. "I meant to talk to you about Mao and your work there, but I didn't have a chance to go into detail," he says easily. "And honestly, I could use an excuse to turn my attention away from this current matter of our guest for a little while."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods, smiling a little and casting a nervous glance at Tellu. She hoped the green-haired girl wasn't disappointed by the professor's...business-like attitude.

I wounder if this would be a good time to huff and stalk off, muttering about 'men'?

She bites her lip and hesitates for a moment before replying.

[Anastasia]

Tellu does so, nodding. "Mao," she asks, curious about the mentioned robot.

"It's Ami's work," Professor Tomoe demurs, letting Ami speak for herself.

[Bean Bandit]

Seeing as how Tellu seems more or less unaffected by the professor's suprisingly divided reaction, Ami decides she was overreacting, and nods.

"She's...a little android I've been working on." Ami smiles embarrassedly. "I was looking at the books in the library on the moon, and they had some fascinating technology in clockwork...I was able to make a little doll for Mako-chan that, in terms of intelligence is roughly on par with robotics technology."

Shyly, Ami goes on, "I learned a lot from that project, and it gave me ideas for another. I started combining what I knew of robotics with what I'd learned, and Mao-chan started to take shape. I'm not adept at general magic, but reading the texts was extremely enlightening as far as building an artificial intelligence...and the more I went along, the easier it seemed to get, until I hit the final problem."

She sighed, brushing a lock of errant blue hair over her ear with her fingertips. "Programming the capacity for a gradually learning intelligence...is impossible, with current technology. What we have now simply can't match a human brain. A computer only learns by programming, and that's not true intelligence. But, with a bit of magic introduced into the 'brain' I created, she should be able to learn,  and grow, just like a human can."