There is a small man with a paintbrush in his hand, kneeling on dry cracked ground beside a large round metal plate, painting the plate with coloured inks drawn somehow from glass spheres in the open case that lies on the ground beside him. Occasionally he checks his work against the book propped up beside the case.
He shrugs. He swallows the multivitamin.
"I mean, I did mention that I can't starve. It's really uncomfortable but it doesn't seem to impair me much."
"Well, I wouldn't want you to be really uncomfortable with the symptoms of magnesium deficiency!"
"I could make you a house first, but a whole mountain range, if that is where you want your house, will take a while."
"Okay. Would you like to wake up to a mountain range, I don't usually sleep."
"...I'm torn between 'yes I would love to wake up to a mountain range' and 'but I wanted to learn how to design mountains first!'"
Cam laughs. "How about you wake up to, like, three mountains, and I can show you what I'm doing as I design the rest of the range?"
"You know what else I want that I don't care much about having design input into? Weather. What can you do about weather?"
"I can make clouds! And air of various temperatures! I am not a weather expert so I'd like to be a little conservative about that until I can survey the whole planet and run simulations but I could make it rain locally and not have to worry about it much."
When he wakes up it is drizzling. Cam's sitting inside, fiddling with stuff on his computer.
"I can't say rain is the sort of thing I miss when it's not around," Cam remarks.
"Well, for one thing, I have to haul water out of the lake for all my plants."