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30 November 2020 10:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sordiddetailsAntheans are highly social beings that thrive on contact and close knit groups. Here, while she had her family there weren't enough Antheans here to fulfill the social needs of her species. So she started reaching out to others. Others in this case being transforming, sentient, mechanical... not robots but close enough.
It wasn't much to prepare for them to come. Due to their size they brought a few chairs out of the house. Tom and Aletayria's house was small, even by human standards. The greenhouse attached to it was probably bigger than the living space. And there were cats, a large number of them, all excited about the hubbub and the fact they could read from their alien companions that wanted visitors were coming. Some of the cats had wings, others were oddly colored... one was a raccoon, a part of the family due to a mistaken identity.
Tommy of course stayed inside reading and disinterested in everything though she assumed when their giant guests came they might get his attention. She and Tom had gone out on the porch to sit and sip tea while they waited. It would be good to have company even if they might not fit in the house.
It wasn't much to prepare for them to come. Due to their size they brought a few chairs out of the house. Tom and Aletayria's house was small, even by human standards. The greenhouse attached to it was probably bigger than the living space. And there were cats, a large number of them, all excited about the hubbub and the fact they could read from their alien companions that wanted visitors were coming. Some of the cats had wings, others were oddly colored... one was a raccoon, a part of the family due to a mistaken identity.
Tommy of course stayed inside reading and disinterested in everything though she assumed when their giant guests came they might get his attention. She and Tom had gone out on the porch to sit and sip tea while they waited. It would be good to have company even if they might not fit in the house.
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2020-12-03 12:36 (UTC)He smiles at the big bird. "A lot of my work is classified. I know what you mean."
He's listening and watching all the parts he's being shown carefully. His mind rolling through how something like this would be constructed, materials involved. She does get a laugh from him. "I've seen what sugar does in engines first hand."
Tom, as a teenager, may have done this to someone's car but he isn't talking. He keeps to the topic at hand though instead of revealing that he was a miscreant at one time before his love of space forced him to gain discipline. "You incorporate a lot of technology similar to what I work with when constructing manned vehicles."
Those words were carefully chosen to distinguish between the living thing before him and the inanimate objects he worked on. The solar panels are of specific interest. If there's no show of disapproval he will walk around her carefully to get a better look at them. "I've been working on solar power technology for several years now. Combining human technology with the Anthean scientific research I'm close to developing a panel that can collect power from moonlight or light reflected from a planetary surface."
Leaving the science for the moment because he honestly feels a little uncomfortable looking at her as a tech object he smiles. "My wife will tell you I have a sweet tooth too. What is candy like if not sugar based?"
The curiosity is back fully. After learning to live with one alien species Tom has lost all fear on first meeting any alien that seems reasonably friendly. It just leaves his naturally social and talkative personality.