After Tirana had played with Valkyrie for a while, Astraea had gone back to teaching her to do more things. Though she could have taught Valkyrie later, she didn't know what else to do with her two toddler friends, only having stuffed toys in her room.

While she and Tirana could have played make-believe where they made stuffed toys play and interact with each other, Kyris would have been left out as she assumed he would have no interest in it.

The only other option was to teach Valkyrie more things and lets the two of them 'play' with her by making her do those things. It was a win-win situation as not only would Kyris and Tirana be entertained, they would be allowing Valkyrie to slowly get used to the new things she had been taught and gain some familiarity in them, without Astraea having to move a finger.

Since kids were quite impatient, she would only teach one set of actions and immediately let the two toddlers play with Valkyrie, as making them wait any longer might make them die out of boredom.

She had taught Valkyrie multiple things such as how to turn in place, how to bend her legs, and even how to jump! She had even taught her some unorthodox things in order to test her learning ability and to pad out the number of things Valkyrie was able to do.

She was able to spin in place with one leg, do jumping jacks, and even how to do a cute dance. Of course, Astraea had to demonstrate each and every action including the cute dance, but it was worth it seeing how much cuter Valkyrie become while doing them!

There was one problem though and that Valkyrie would only do what she had learned if someone else was doing it, Astraea hadn't created an alternate trigger such associating a word with a certain action not because it wasn't possible, but that she was too lazy to do it at the moment. She also assumed that it would take a way longer time to do so as Valkyrie seemed to be very unreactive to sounds as if she was deaf.

They had played for a few hours and Valkyrie was now able to do a whole range of movements and was almost like a miniature mecha that they were able to control with their body movements. At some point, Valkyrie had started to increase her pace when someone was walking around and leading her in order to keep up with them and no longer followed their steps exactly which would make her lag behind. 

This proved to Astraea that Valkyrie was able to already able to learn on her own and didn't need a constant input of information to improve. It was all smiles, giggles, and fun inside of Astraea's room, with all three children having bonded over the past couple of hours while playing with Valkyrie. 

Tirana's and Kyris' impression of Astraea changed greatly in those few hours, and the one thing they gathered in the time they had bonded was that Astraea was extremely mature and intelligent, while they had some idea of her intelligence from her actions during the party, it was only a small snippet of her actual intelligence. 

They had watched how she taught Valkyrie different actions with methods they would have never even thought of doing, and how each time they would argue about who should play with the robot she would cut in and lightly reprimand them like one of their parents. 

She had this aura about her that was similar to their parents which made them unconsciously treat her like she was an adult each time she acted mature or beyond her age. This made them admire her as they found it really cool how someone so young was like an adult.

Kyris' had fully changed his attitude in those few hours and no longer saw Astraea as a baby and instead as someone really cool, and Tirana had started treating her like an older sister, despite being one year younger.

When Astraea realized how they treated her had changed, she mental fist-pumped at having gained some new 'followers' besides from her extremely loving parents. 

Though she didn't gain them with the method which she would use to gain followers in the future, which was her cuteness, they were followers nonetheless and as they grew older they would slowly begin to appreciate her cuteness. 

Astraea was currently teaching Valkyrie something as the door of her room swung open, with her mom Paela entering the room.

Kyris and Tirana didn't notice as their attention was fully on the amazing little robot they had played with for the past few hours.

While Astraea had noticed her, she decided not to stop what she was doing and instead continued teaching Valkyrie, only when her mom calls for her would she respond.

Paela had a gentle smile on her face as she watched the children playing with Valkyrie, and had originally been very surprised when she saw the robot moving.

During the late-night party, Kaelie had explained in more detail about the A.I. she had gifted Astraea, telling her everything she would need to know about it from the extensive research she had done about A.I. and plans for raising it.

Most of the information was related to the differences between an A.I. and a human being, one difference being that while both would have a minuscule amount of knowledge at the start of their life, human babies actually had it better off.

Human babies still had things such as instinct and a brain with some information that was needed for their body to function, allowing them to do things such as making noises, the ability to move their limbs at birth and the ability to recognize their kin.

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'Baby' A.I.s like Valkyrie did not have such an advantage due to their originally non-physical nature which was a bunch of code. 

Though most people in the world were curious about how Atric had been able to create artificial souls, they were equally curious on how they had integrated them into A.I.s.

When A.I.s are first created, they have no instinct, no necessary information on how to operate a living body, and no physical body that was able to absorb information from its surrounds.

They had nothing at all, if human babies were akin to a rough sketch, then 'baby' A.I.s were akin to a blank sheet, totally spotless.

There were advantages and disadvantages to this too, with a rough sketch one did not need to lay their foundations and only had to build upon it, but they would still have to follow the sketch to some extent and would be unable to change it, only add to it.

A blank sheet needed extensive work to lay the foundations but you would not be limited by a set foundation and could do whatever you wanted.

If someone didn't know any better and treated Atric's new sapient A.I.s as normal A.I. then they would become nothing more than a normal emotionless A.I. that does general tasks any other A.I. can do just with greater efficiency. The same way if someone were to treat them like a living human and raised them like one, it was very likely that they would be just like a normal human as well. 

Though it seemed like A.I. were disadvantaged in that respect, they made up for it with their immense learning ability and memory, but their learning curve was like the rolling of a snowball down a snow-covered hillside, making it very slow in the beginning.

It was for that reason that Paela was a little disbelieving that Valkyrie had already been able to move around with great proficiency in just a few hours of being activated. She beamed in pride as she looked towards the one behind it who was currently teaching Valkyrie a new action.

"Hey kids, you guys having fun?" She spoke into the room, gaining the attention of Kyris and Tirana and making Astraea pause her teaching. 

"Yeah!" 

"Mhm.."

"Yes, mommy!"  

The three of them responded together with beaming smiles, all three genuine as even Astraea had greatly enjoyed teaching Valkyrie along with watching her two young friends joyfully test out the actions she had taught. 

"I'm glad you're having fun, but it's really late now so sadly you all have to go to bed," Paela told to them. 

"""Aww...""" All three of them said in disappointment, but Astraea was just playing along as she was happy and satisfied with what she had gained and done today. It was truly an amazing birthday and she had received gifts she had never imagined a one-year-old to receive, though it was partly attributed to being in an upper-middle-class family, part of it was also due to the amazing technology this world had and the loving family she had. 

Though both Kyris and Tirana had wanted to stay up longer to play, they didn't resist too much to sleeping as they were quite tired from playing with Valkyrie as it was all physical play and they moved their bodies a lot to get Valkyrie to move. 

Though there was only one small toddler bed that belonged to Astraea, it wasn't a problem as the bed she had was not a regular one, and was able to increase in size to accommodate her growth, it was also able to easily change its physical design and even the design of the pillows and covers.

It was a very expensive and popular bed that regular people wouldn't dare to buy and was targetted towards wealthy families with growing children. 

The bed grew in width as Paela tinkered with some settings using a holographic screen that was projected from the bed and it had pushed aside all the stuffed toys on either side, creating a mini avalanche of stuffed toys that spilled onto the now bigger bed. 

Kyris pushed all the stuffed toys that had fallen onto his side with a scrunched up face, while Tirana pulled even more onto her side, with a face of content and happiness. 

Astraea was in the middle of both of them, looking between both sides with a wry smile with Valkyrie snug in her arms. 

One by one the adults came in to wish the children good night, Dennix and Aneya were both happy that Kyris and Tirana had been able to become friends with Astraea, but Dennix was the happier of the two, as he didn't expect Kyris to do so after previously seeing how he treated her. 

Astraea's grandparents wished all three of them a good night, despite not being the other two's actual grandparents, they had known their parents since they were children which made them easily treat their children like their actual grandkids, which made the two kids very happy and loved. 

Kaelie wished all three of them a good night as well, telling Astraea a happy birthday.

They all exited the room after bidding the three good night, with Aereon being the last to leave, before he closed the door, he looked back at Astraea and gave her a gentle smile.

"Sweet dreams my cute princess, and happy birthday" With that he closed the door, leaving the room in total darkness.

The room then light up in a gentle blue light, as the wall the bed was against suddenly turned into a window that allowed the moonlight to stream in, it was a feature added to her room that Astraea had requested that whenever it was bedtime, the wall would change to allow the moonlight to act as a nightlight. 

Both Tirana and Kyris breathed out a sigh of relief as they both didn't like the pitch darkness the room was previously in. 

Astraea giggled at their sighs, getting snug on the bed with Valkyrie hugged to her chest. 

"Goodnight Tirana, goodnight Kyris," She said to both of them.

""Goodnight Astraea"" they replied back, and the room delved into silence as the three children swiftly went to sleep, tired from the day's events but all happy and satisfied.