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In the brief moment of silence that descended upon the commencement of the meal, Jezza grinned at Alian dishing herself a hearty portion of the food provided. Alian was very beautiful woman which made Jezza jealous for a split moment. Funny though that she was not the type that Mathias had ever shown an interest in before now. All of the other girls were either daughters of prominent ambassadorial families or the gorgeous hotties that would catch the attention of his superiors. He loathed being around them though which she was glad he still had his head on that straight at least. She liked this change.

Covertly she shot a surprised gaze from the corner of her eye towards her twin brother. Mathias began to heap some salad and some of her expensive rock lobster on his plate with his usual cold, masculine scowl on his face. She had hoped years ago that the nasty expression would not have grown to be there permanently, but it seemed to have grown there like a fungus. He tried to be so business like, no matter his surroundings which only seemed to add the years on his face. How long had it been since he had actually smiled with actual joy behind it? She hated the forced grin he usually wore to indulge her. He was too serious. He reminded her very little of their father unlike when they were younger.

Once he had his fill of food on his plate, he glanced up at her and his stare turned to one of warning. He turned away when he thought that Jezza had received his message as she piled food on her plate as well.

In his peripherals, he watched at his twin sister wipe away her unusually serious expression and replace it with her normal childish grin as she turned herself to pouring lemonade from a demon shaped pitcher for all present at the table. As he looked at her slyly, Jezza's eyes sparkled mischievously while her brown locks rippled down her back. From his memories Jezza looked just like their mother, a spitting image. Every feature was a perfect mold of their long gone mother's which made his envy of her flare up at moments like this. Everyone who knew their family had always said that he was the younger version of their father, but he could never see it.

His eyes shifted to Alian while she served herself food. She was a very odd woman, much like his weird sister who sat only a few feet from him in between them. He could not argue that she was good looking, but she was different. He wasn't sure that he liked different. Turning his mind from such troubling matters as affection for a woman, he picked up his fork and pierced a few leaves of salad to shove them in his mouth as Alian posed her questions in rapid succession. His attention seemed to be purely on food.

"We have lived here about five years. " Jezza replied charmingly, amused at Alian's peppy nature. "I own my own business, Berenger Fleet and Freight. It is a message delivering business with some freight shipping on the side."

Jezza turned to look at Mathias, expecting him to answer. Mathias shoved another piece of lobster in his mouth, ignoring her. Her boot landed in the middle of Mathias' shin as a warning causing him to jump in shock then glare at her. After a brief staredown, Mathias sighed, took a drink to clear his throat then turned to Alian smoothly.

"I am a member of the World Wide Ambassadorial Courts." He answered casually. "I represent the Highlands in the North, our home territory. I am also a ambassador to the government. I make sure that they follow their promises." Jezza turned back to Alian, satisfied with his answer.

"Mathias and I are twins even though we look nothing alike." Jezza announced as Mathias turned back to his food. Jezza swallowed a bite of chicken. "We are both twenty-two. how old are you, Alian? What do you do for a living?"

"Wow! I love it!" Jezza squealed in excitement.
"They are certainly...interesting." Mathias commented, not sure of how to react.

"Interesting!" Alian was slightly annoyed by Mathias' response, "it took me three weeks to program this chip, not including design development."

"Well, I love it, Alian!" Jezza chimed in, amused by her twin's uneasiness. "Do you think you could make me one?"

"Oh, yes. Sorry, I didn't mean to jump on you Mathias." Alian couldn't believe she had reacted like that, "Ya they are relatively cheap, just a holograph image projected into the surface cells. You have a design in mind?"

"Well, I have some drawings that I kinda would like." Jezza replied, suddenly very excited. "I will have to show them to you. Once you are fully moved in, of course."

Mathias released a sigh and shoved the last of his food into his mouth, feeling supremely awkward. He was extremely nervous about Jezza getting a digital tattoo, just like their father had been before his death. Darn it!  That was the last person he wanted to be like at this moment. Silently he stood, gathered up his part of the dishes and moved to the kitchen where he began to fill up the sink
with his dishes, ignoring the cleaning unit beside it.

Alian switched into business mode, straightened her shirt and sat up straight. She did this on purpose, to many friends had tried to take advantage of her. Alian found it amusing that she probably resembled Mathias right now. Stick up the but and all she thought.

"So a full body tattoo like this is quite expensive and taking one of your drawings and transferring it into a tattoo, will cost 5% more. Since you cooked me dinner I think I can wave that fee. I will get you the exact detail once I am unpacked." With this she started collecting plates and dishes.

"Oh, don't worry, Alian." Jezza stood and began gathering the left overs. "You don't have to do dishes. That is my job." She would take her load of leftovers and place them in the cooling unit while she deposited her dishes in the soapy sink next to Mathias. "As far as the tattoo, don't worry about waving the fee. I have more than enough to pay for it all. What I would really want is for a small
wrist tattoo or a back tattoo."

Mathias had started on doing the dishes, the old fashioned way. As their mother had always did it. He forced a smile at Jezza as she offered him the plates, receiving an affectionate one in return. Listening to the women beside him chatter, he dove into his job. For as long as he could remember it had been this way. If Jezza cooked, he did dishes and vice versa.

Alian heard Jezza, she dropped the dishes Jezza had left on the table and ran out the back door. She saw Jezza crouched over a figure, as she came closer she realized it was a robot.Alian couched down to the figure it was then she saw the liquid on Jezza's hand.

"Can you hear me? Hello are you okay?" Alian tried to wake the figure. The lack of response confused her if it was a robot it was expected but if it was human silence was bad. Alian looked at Jezza and Mathias.

"Mathias help me carry it inside."

"I do have a degree in computer engineering, but I have never seen such a complicated robot before, I mean they never touched this at school and I never use this technology when making tattoos."

The noises woke him up, there was so much movement and noise. It was warmer in here. The smells were different. They stung his nose, he sat up. Screams and a gasp of shock accompanied his movement.

"He is moving!!"

He couldn't see anything, it was so dark. He moved his hand in front of his sensors, no information was relayed. He activated his repair program. The program informed him that he had been damaged and it was attempting to repair it. Five point six seconds until sensor reactivation.

"Hello? Hello who... what are you?" Alian was worried she had never seen such a high class of bio-technology. This thing was basically living, but as far as she could tell it was a robot. They would need a second opinion.

Her thoughts were interupted by a sound, "hewazz"

Alian looked at the figure, "Did it just... talk?"

Alian replied to Mathias question obviously distracted, "They were a hobby of mine, but I have never seen anything this advanced." Alian continued her rambeling more to hear her thoughts than to explain the mystery sitting in-front of them.
"I mean he has living tissue, at least it looks alive, and it is integrated into his mechanical systems. That is what I am seeing. Maybe this... Josh fellow will be able to tell... I just don't know"

sensor function returing... now A movement startled the figure and his sensors came back online. He threw up his hands in protection and felt his elbow hit something.

"Did you not hear anything I said?" Alian's full attention was turned to Mathias," Degree in computer technology with experience in basic robotic technology... What do you think?"

"Jwazz, Jawazz, Heaxzz, Jwaszz" The robot of sorts kept repeating the same phrase, Jwazz Heaxzz.

"What is it doing? The noise is quite annoying." Alian spat, she was worried and tended to get annoyed easily when she got worried. Deep breath, remember what the book said... She took in a deep breath.

" I am sorry Mathias, yes I have mechanical knowledge. Why do you want to know? do you need me to fix anything for you today?"

Alian blushed, "I am sorry i thought you asked if I was a mechanic. I just moved here, remember? But i could call this guy i know See if he knows anybody." Alian was embarrassed by the misunderstanding and was sure that her skin color matched the roses in her tattoo. She turned off the tattoo hoping that that would lessen the noticeability of her blushing.

"I will give him a call right now"

"Jewzzs" the man reached out and grabbed Jezzas shoulder, "Hwats e hwats."
He picked up the soaked towel, "Hwats."