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[poeticterms]

"Of course. Luckily for any aspirations you may have toward a tour of the house, there is a second door at the other end of the room."

Comments

[seeagreatergood]

He pulls a face. "No good without the intelligence behind it, huh?"

[poeticterms]

"Exactly. I suppose you could teach a human to operate the code, but it is not designed for that sort of thing."

[seeagreatergood]

"And then I may as well just have a human read to me. Redundancy is not a useful concept in this case."

[poeticterms]

Thoughtfully: "Well, I'm sure it wouldn't take me long to design a text-to-speech interpreter that is better than most commercial models, if that's all you're after."

[seeagreatergood]

". . . It's only my life's dream."

[poeticterms]

"In that case, I would be happy to."

But when he does, the resulting program probably won't be able to smile like that.

[toblameforit]

(Tony will just be over here d'awwing inside.)

[seeagreatergood]

Auggie laughs.

"I can hear you grinning, Tony."

[toblameforit]

"You totally can't," he protests, audibly grinning.

[seeagreatergood]

"Don't doubt the ears, man. Jarvis -- thanks. I'll owe you one."

[poeticterms]

"Think nothing of it," he says happily. "I enjoy being useful."

[toblameforit]

"Grinning doesn't make noise," says Tony. "Not by itself."

[seeagreatergood]

"How do you know?"

[toblameforit]

"Sherry would've said something by now."

[seeagreatergood]

"And give up the advantage?"

[toblameforit]

He giggles.

"Okay, point."

[seeagreatergood]

"Thought so."

[toblameforit]

"You win this round," Tony concedes.

[seeagreatergood]

Smug Auggie is smug.

"So that's the sound system. What about that workshop?"

[toblameforit]

"Downstairs. Uh, stairs or elevator? Elevator's closer."

[seeagreatergood]

"Elevator, then. That tends to be easier."

[toblameforit]

"Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, you got it."

He bounces to his feet and gets out of Auggie's way, but stays close enough to start leading him once he stands up.

[seeagreatergood]

Auggie grins when he hears Tony moving, and accepts the implied invitation of a guiding shoulder when he stands.

"Got any projects underway at the moment?"

[toblameforit]

"Three. No, four."

For a genius, Tony is pretty bad at counting, isn't he.

"Three gadgets and a car," he explains on the way—out of the room, right turn, down the hall, right again. "The car is basically just a car, but some of the other stuff is cool. Encrypted cellphone, improved laser targeting system for a none-of-your-business, and I'm trying to figure out if I can build a Faraday cage for magic."

[seeagreatergood]

Cellphone: very interesting. Laser targeting system: also very interesting.

". . . A what for what?"