[ He takes a moment to think over how to answer the question. ]
The most important thing for you is to play well, learn well, and make sure you stay healthy.
[ Since she's an AI he has adjusted his expectations somewhat. ]
I'll make a chore schedule for you since we divide the work between us. It will include doing the dishes, laundry, cleaning the floors — things like that. If we need help with anything else we'll make sure to ask you.
You'll also have to make sure to put your dirty clothes in a laundry hamper, and will be responsible for keeping your own room clean.
[ Cale glances to Regis briefly, hoping he won't be mad that they'll end up sharing a room because of this overprotective impulse. ]
And since it will be your space you can decorate the bedroom however you want without asking permission.
[Regis shrugs when Cale looks at him. He's shared much tighter spaces with more people. He'll manage. Part of him wants to object to the chore schedule since he hardly thinks it will be necessary for someone as helpful as she is, but at the same time, it might keep Cale himself from leaning on her too much if things are scheduled. Regis knows the redhead's lazy streak far too well at this point, so he ends up keeping his objections to himself.]
Things can always be adjusted as need be, that I think that is a good place to start. Now, I feel like I rather interrupted something when I arrived. Should I leave you two to finish off whatever you were doing?
[He has so many more questions he wants to ask, but they can wait. She's answered a lot of questions already, and he needs to go sort through the bottles he picked up at the market. Potions aren't going to make themselves.]
[She blinks in confusion between them. All of those chores are entirely acceptable (she'd do literally all of them if she was directed, so that's fine and good) but...]
You weren't interrupting anything. There's no need to leave unless you want to. I don't need a whole room, though. [She doesn't even know what to do with the one she was assigned in the castle, nevermind theirs.] I only need a place to put my Leaf. Since I don't sleep, anything more would be unnecessary.
[She can chill on the couch or inside the Leaf, no big deal.]
[ Cale also blinks at Regis, confused by the comment. He hadn't been interrupting anything though? And it's also his apartment? He's allowed to do whatever he wants. ]
A bedroom isn't just a space for sleeping. It's somewhere you can turn into a safe, cozy spot to retreat to when you want privacy or some quiet time alone. They're also good for learning how to express your own likes and interests, and experiment with different aesthetics.
[ While the children share a bedroom with him in the Super Rock Villa, the bedroom also takes up the entirety of the fifth floor, leaving more than enough space for the four of them to make their own personal nooks. ]
You already have friends, don't you? [ There's no chance someone like Sophia doesn't have some by now. ] Having a room is a relatable experience to many people, so I think it's something worth trying out at least once even if you decide you don't like it.
[Regis can't help but be amused by both of them being so confused (for different reasons he's sure) by someone offering them a little courtesy. It truly does seem as if he didn't interrupt anything, though, so he lets the issue drop.]
What is it like for you when you are in the Leaf? Do you have a space that is all yours or is everything more interconnected than that?
[As long as she feels like she has a space of her own, it doesn't matter so much to Regis whether it is physical or data. Of course, if Cale really wants her to experience more things that a normal teenager would, then having a physical room would be necessary.]
Perhaps you can ask your friends what they think of having their own rooms if you are unsure? Being closer to your age, their opinions might make more sense to you than ours do.
Um... [That is a good heckin question, Regis.] It is hard to describe. There is a space, but nothing in it, because it is digital. I don't have any need for physical objects, since I am an AI. What I wear and carry comes with me, but I have no explanation for that except it is... a part of me?
[She tilts thoughtfully sideways a bit. Hard to explain what being an AI or being inside a non-physical space is like. It just sort of is.]
I will ask my friends about what to do with rooms. When we traveled in the RV, they liked to collect small keepsakes from the places we visited and decorated its interior. Maybe it's like that.
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The most important thing for you is to play well, learn well, and make sure you stay healthy.
[ Since she's an AI he has adjusted his expectations somewhat. ]
I'll make a chore schedule for you since we divide the work between us. It will include doing the dishes, laundry, cleaning the floors — things like that. If we need help with anything else we'll make sure to ask you.
You'll also have to make sure to put your dirty clothes in a laundry hamper, and will be responsible for keeping your own room clean.
[ Cale glances to Regis briefly, hoping he won't be mad that they'll end up sharing a room because of this overprotective impulse. ]
And since it will be your space you can decorate the bedroom however you want without asking permission.
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Things can always be adjusted as need be, that I think that is a good place to start. Now, I feel like I rather interrupted something when I arrived. Should I leave you two to finish off whatever you were doing?
[He has so many more questions he wants to ask, but they can wait. She's answered a lot of questions already, and he needs to go sort through the bottles he picked up at the market. Potions aren't going to make themselves.]
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You weren't interrupting anything. There's no need to leave unless you want to. I don't need a whole room, though. [She doesn't even know what to do with the one she was assigned in the castle, nevermind theirs.] I only need a place to put my Leaf. Since I don't sleep, anything more would be unnecessary.
[She can chill on the couch or inside the Leaf, no big deal.]
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A bedroom isn't just a space for sleeping. It's somewhere you can turn into a safe, cozy spot to retreat to when you want privacy or some quiet time alone. They're also good for learning how to express your own likes and interests, and experiment with different aesthetics.
[ While the children share a bedroom with him in the Super Rock Villa, the bedroom also takes up the entirety of the fifth floor, leaving more than enough space for the four of them to make their own personal nooks. ]
You already have friends, don't you? [ There's no chance someone like Sophia doesn't have some by now. ] Having a room is a relatable experience to many people, so I think it's something worth trying out at least once even if you decide you don't like it.
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What is it like for you when you are in the Leaf? Do you have a space that is all yours or is everything more interconnected than that?
[As long as she feels like she has a space of her own, it doesn't matter so much to Regis whether it is physical or data. Of course, if Cale really wants her to experience more things that a normal teenager would, then having a physical room would be necessary.]
Perhaps you can ask your friends what they think of having their own rooms if you are unsure? Being closer to your age, their opinions might make more sense to you than ours do.
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[She tilts thoughtfully sideways a bit. Hard to explain what being an AI or being inside a non-physical space is like. It just sort of is.]
I will ask my friends about what to do with rooms. When we traveled in the RV, they liked to collect small keepsakes from the places we visited and decorated its interior. Maybe it's like that.