"A little." He made the adjustment, sketched out the math just to double check the tensile strength of both the wire and the posts of the gears- and it all evened out. Good. "Not enough to be a risk on the mechanism. Good eye."

Leaving little pockets like that was part of how he tests for initiative- and she caught it beautifully. He'd begun threading and arranging the gears and loops for the legs, the wire spooled and ready to be cut to proper length whenever the main body was prepared- it wouldn't be a difficult build, but tedious.

And she already showed quite a bit of promise. "You weren't kidding about being good with delicate work."