Salem awoke early in the morning to something heavy on his chest.
Opening his eyes, he saw Alina draped over him like a second blanket and Ruby was half on top of Alina and half on top of Salem.
'Seems they had an unconscious fight.' He thought, amused. 'Alina won.'
As Salem waited for the girls to wake up, he began thinking about ways he could adjust his machines in a way that wouldn't expend psyche.
'I have the folding down, but that makes my machines delicate.' He thought for a while. 'What if I folded them into shapes that strengthened each other?' He began making blueprints in his head. Even though he hated using the system, this was something he needed to use the system for.
He made electrodes and interconnected logistical sensors, and combined them to make a nerve interface.
A nerve interface was used to interact directly with a small computer he was going to implant somewhere on the suits. Without a nerve interface, he would probably have a seizure.
As he made the blueprints, his understanding of the human brain and how he could use his nanobots to interperet it deepened. Although he wasn't an expert at that moment, he was able to make a little gadget that looked like a headband. For himself, he made it into a top hat.
'Gotta look fancy.' He thought, laughing internally.
After making a successful prototype, he made a little rover next to the bed and began controlling it with the nerve interface.
He was doing this to test the response time and whether or not his unconscious thoughts would interfere.
Unconscious thoughts only delayed the commands, so he needed to focus on his commands for them to be carried out.
While it couldn't perfectly read thoughts, it still worked to a reasonable degree.
He was still experimenting when Alina stirred. Salem recycled the rover and his experimental nerve interface.
Without opening her eyes, her hand found the side of his face and she slid herself upward to give him a kiss.
She seemed to enjoy the kiss for a moment before waking fully up.
Her eyes opened abruptly and she was about to apologize when he put a finger to her lips and pointed to Ruby. Understanding, she shifted slightly, rested her head on his chest and enjoyed the contact.
Salem began absentmindedly running his hand through her hair while trying to make it so the redundant data in his nerve interface wasn't saved. He didn't notice until she released a noise similar to a cat would purr.
He paused, surprised, before resuming stroking her hair.
When he paused, he felt her face heat up, but when he resumed, her face cooled back down, likely due to embarassment.
They lay in silence until, at last, Ruby opened her eyes.
"Guess I'm late to the party." She said, noting that Alina was snuggled up against Salem and he was stroking her hair. She silently resolved to get up early in the future.
Salem gave them their newly upgraded suits in their form as a ball.
He explained how the nerve interfaces worked and how their conscious thoughts could make the suits transform from ball into clothing and back again.
It was fascinating to watch the ball detatch parts and coalesce into a piece of clothing.
Salem put on a top hat and his T-shirt and sweatpants changed into a suit.
"Let's see what's going on here." Salem said, leading the way to the front desk.