Kaede felt his breath still as he watched the scene unfold in front of him. She had noticed his watching gaze. Did she turn the delivery boy away because of this or because of her own will? He found himself anxious, wondering if he could somehow understand E.v.a's emotion. He modeled her so perfectly after a human that all the human bits he didn't understand could possibly be displayed in her.

Flipping through various other camera feeds, he found her again in the kitchen, going through the box. Remotely accessing one of the flying bots nearby, he sent it over to perch on the edge of the table, tilting an almost curious and slightly apologetic head. Likewise, the tiny whir it emitted sounded like a question, one that Kaede was too chicken to get out of his lab and ask himself.