"Really? Fairies don't do those? They're live action enactments of stories, which people typically do on stage, using makeup and clothes and props to add to the verisimilitude of the story."

"Maybe some fairies do them but I've never seen one."

"Huh. Well, they're really cool, some of the books I've given you are actually plays. Anyway, a movie is like a play but recorded and with computerised special effects so the video really looks like what the story's telling, sometimes even when it's impossible. They're usually less information-dense than books, since they don't tend to last much longer than two hours, but they're very nice, too, there's music and beautiful scenery and acting and stuff."

"Pity they'd be hard to redact."

"Yeah. Not impossible, I mean, I could just watch the video and edit it manually, or even better, hire someone to do it, but it's not nearly as easy as with books, no."

"Maybe if I run out of books that would be nice."

He giggles. "I don't think 'running out of books' is a problem you're likely to face in the next ever."

"Really?"

"Was it, when you only had fairy books available? Mortals have written—and write—a lot. Just to understand all of science known so far would take several lifetimes, and by then there'd be a lot more science to learn!"

"There's probably more fairy books than you could easily read but they're not all readily accessible..."

He gestures at her e-reader. "Mortal books are very accessible."

"They are!"

"Anyway, opinions on restaurant versus me bringing you lots of food?"

"Restaurant might be a bit much."

"Fair enough. Eventually we're gonna unify both worlds and there are going to be restaurants in fairyland too and it'll all be awesome."

Giggle. "Restaurants seem like they'd be uniquely hard to import."

"'Cause of food vassalisation?"

"Yeah."

"If we create a viral order that makes people not be able to order other people who don't wanna be ordered... or, more desirably though much more difficultly, create a society where orders just aren't a thing, that could work."

"Suppose so."

"Although I'm not sure such a society could even work without some background order like that, it sounds like it'd be really susceptible to the stray free rider."

"Rather, yes. And all the new fairies pop into existence unordered and knowing how orders work."

"Mmhm. Though once we get this going, if it gets used widely enough, new fairies might start appearing with the background knowledge that such an order exists and is widely used and that free riding both is extremely frowned upon and also won't work."

"If there's a way to make sure it doesn't work."

"Mmhm, it'd have to be something that'd be self-enforcing and self-replicating and self-regulating and might be a whole contract of an order to actually work. And if we build a nice functioning hybrid society around this order full of nice things people might not want to try."