Two Lost Birds

Alto followed her but his questions overflowed from him, "How did you know I was a mech designer?"

She smiled and said. "I can see it in your eyes, they were impressed by everything. I know it's easy to get in a place filled with wondrous inventions whoever you have a brain like ours, some might call it a curse but I say it's a gift."

"Wow", Alto remarked clearly impressed by her words that seemed to surpass his own scope of understanding or it felt like such.

She giggled softly and said, "Impressed? Don't be, that was one of the lines from a cartoon I watched on the way here."

Alto's face grew confused at the thought that this girl was toying with him. With someone she had only just met at that, "Excuse me, I'm a bit confused here."