From the garden, they could hear Aria's excited voice explaining the properties of various herbs while Sarah responded with genuine interest and detailed knowledge about their culinary applications.
"See?" Kaelen said. "They're already bonding. Aria needs more female role models who take intellectual pursuits seriously. Sarah is perfect for that."
"This is going much better than my probability calculations suggested."
"That's because human emotions don't follow mathematical models, dear. Sometimes people just... work well together." She stood. "Now come on. Let's join them before Aria convinces Sarah to teach her fifty different recipes tonight."
They walked to the garden, where Aria was indeed trying to convince Sarah to teach her everything at once.
"...and then if we combine the thermal regulation technique with probability manipulation, we could create dishes that taste different based on the consumer's mood state!"
