"Do you feel pressured by the revelation that you have gained a lot of rivals?"
"No." Alexa responded with a smile. "I am confident in my own work. The mech designers of the so-called Living Machine Tower may have taken advantage of the Time of Isolation while the Polymath subsidized their work. I doubt these rivals of mine can come close to equaling my motivation and desire to create entire dynasties of living mechs. My greatest advantage is that I am the only orthodox inheritor of your design philosophy. Aside from you, no one understands your work better. I dare say that not even the Polymath is able to surpass me on this criterion."
It took a particularly reckless kind of confidence for a Journeyman Mech Designer to claim she knew more than the Polymath about a subject related to mech design!
Ves did not expect Alexa to be the kind of woman who was willing to make such an outrageous claim.
