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I don't have any objection to this. I'd much rather be doing my job, of course, but there's a great deal to learn here too.

Infact, I'd say this is an excellent opportunity to teach as well. I am certain there are many eagers minds here, waiting to be filled with knowledge. Whilst I'm here, it couldn't hurt!

Now, where did I put my coffee...?

[It's in your hand, Hubbard.]

So it is! I never can stop myself making it, even now. I just can't think straight without the mug in my hand, you know...

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Oh hey, its you again!

...Uh how exactly are you going to drink that?

Hello, young lady.

I unfortunately cannot. Old habits die hard and I find myself making cup after cup, letting them go cold and pouring it away. A dreadful waste, really, but it happens before I even realise.

Wow, that must really be a downer.

[She tilts her head, not exactly understanding why this robot guy feels the need to drink in the first place, it's almost as if he was something else to begin with.]

Maybe you should run a coffee shop instead of being a teacher...then at least your coffee wouldn't go to waste!

[Bingo.]

I couldn't do that... I don't imagine there is anything I want to do more than teach. That aside, I am not especially good at it. Instant, black, one sugar. That's about the extent of my experience.

Well in that case...I guess it's kinda like your calling!

You must be really good at teaching if you can't bring yourself to do anything else. Kind of like me and my knack for getting into trouble.

I suppose so. It is what I've always wanted to do. But how does it go... 'Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.' -Baz Luhrmann.

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Baz who...?

[Newsflash, Hubbard. They don't have awesome movies in Dragonsbayne. Poor girl's never been subjected to the likes of Moulin Rouge or The Great Gatsby.]

Luhrmann. Film director.

Don't worry about it. He just once did a speech that was turned into a song, filled with really great advice, I was quoting that.

Oh, right...

[She blushes a little.] Sorry, I should probably mention that I don't really know much about that kind of thing. My world doesn't have any modern conveniences. Apparently apart from all the magic we use, we're still stuck in the dark ages

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Whatever you do please DON'T DRINK THAT COFFEE!

[thrusts an arm out, ready to lunge for it if you're in danger of drinking it. HE'S GOT BAD EXPERIENCES WITH ROBOTS WHO GO NUTS WITH COFFEE OKAY]

[OH GEEZE that's startling! He recoils, coffee getting dangerously close to spill when he does.]

Young man, I don't know if it's escaped your noticed but I am lacking a mouth.

You'd be surprised what some robots can manage without a mouth . . . [a stuttering sigh, his hand on his chest in relief] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.

I suppose some sort of proboscis or perhaps a sponge like device could do it. Or simply an intake tank.

Apology accepted, by the way. I take it you've had some sort of prior trouble on the subject?

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"Trouble." Haha, you could say that . . . My boss created a robot to make his job easier: Komurin. He gave it his exact personality. So while he was showing it off,

it took his coffee and drank it. Komurin then went haywire and started capturing us Exorcists. All the while singing "surgery, surgery." [he shudders] So many drills . . .

Oh my stars, how dreadful! Crafting automatons is always a tricky business... How exactly does one teach judgement to a machine that is limited to thinking in numbers? Must consider things always in terms of 'yes' and 'no' by necessity... I've never had much success with it myself.

[Yes the mechanical man is talking about the limitations of robots. Because technically he is not one.]

You weren't harmed were you, young man?

[yes, that seems a little strange to Allen. he tilts his head curiously, a bit confused]

Ah, well-- A little, but not too badly. [he smiles reassuringly] I've had worse. It was mostly just traumatizing.

I'm sorry, but . . . aren't you a robot with a sense of judgement yourself?

Not at all! You see-

[Through the use of D.T Teleport, a wavy green circle appears from which a blackboard and chalk emerge. He clatters down some of the points he talks about, in a neat diagram, with some extra etymological origins added.]

The world robot stems from a word implying slavery or specifically hard work. This was further refined to mean a machine that performs complicated work automatically- a device that is operated by a user is therefore not a robot. I am mechanical bodied human.

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oh no i like them a lot. Hubbard is a good

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Thank you very much!

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Coffee?

Yes. Silly I know, but... Old habits don't just die hard. Some are immortal.

Tell me about it. So does that mean you are a cyborg? Or were you a coffee machine before?

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I wish! Then I'd have been able to make good coffee. I'm not quite a cyborg, as I completely lack the 'organism' half of the equation. I generally refer to myself as a mechanically bodied human, but I've no doubt there's a more elegant way to describe it.

And yourself, my good being?

[Robo decides not to pry too much on that one yet.]

I was called an Automatic Intelligence. I'm Atomic Robo by the way.

[Which is largely appreciated. He doesn't lie about it, but he rarely volunteers more information than necessary.]

Oh, I like that! Somewhat better than Artificial Intelligence. After all, artificial tends to also mean 'false' and I'm sure your thoughts are as real as anyones. Why, an Automatic Intelligence could describe a human.

[He puts out a hand.]

Call me Hubbard! Prof- No, Doctor Hubbard if we're being formal.

That's what my dad thought too.

[Robo takes the hand and shakes it.]

If we're being formal I guess you could call me Dr. Atomic Robo Tesla, but most people just call me Robo.

Professor? What subjects do you teach?

Robo it is then.

[It takes him a couple of seconds to overcome the otherwise impossible to detect embarrassment of what he says next. Because it's true, but it sounds so silly!]

As for my subject... everything, I suppose. I had a rather expansive curriculum and many different schools to teach them in. Though at present, it's all defunct so back to Doctor it is for now.

[When you're the only educator on the planet trying to uplift everyone from a second Stone Age and don't need to sleep... well, let's just say he really did teach everything.]