"Not really enough of it. I mean, I could try but you'd have to do a lot of pruning. I can copy it outright?"

"Hmm... nah," he decides. "Having exact copies of my favourite features of the places where I grew up would be too weird."

"I suppose turning it upside down or something wouldn't cut it?"

He giggles. "No."

"All right. It almost reminds me of these windows in this one demon's house -" He rummages around, pulls up a photo. "Ignore the rest of it, demon architecture is tacky, do you like the windows?"

"Wow," he remarks. "But yeah, I like those windows!"

"This is not the worst demon house ever," Cam says, snipping out the window design and adding it to the house sim. "They get real bad. We can make stuff but have no special ability to get rid of it. You get way too many things made of solid gold that way."

"There's a similar problem with the magic around here, I had to dig a bunch of new rooms to hold all the junk from my diagrams testing, but I think there's got to be some way to get rid of stuff or the entire planet would be one huge junk heap."

"There is, at least, some really thorough way to get rid of stuff," Cam says.

"Maybe they were trying to get rid of their junk and screwed it up and accidentally got rid of their everything," he speculates.

"Cautionary tale," nods Cam.

"I'm pretty sure they screwed something up. Like, it took me a while to notice, but this whole hill-house thing looks kind of like it was dug in a hurry, you know? And it's full of - I mean I don't know for sure that they're emergency supplies, but they sure look like emergency supplies. That seems more like 'suddenly everybody needed to hide underground' than like 'they died off gradually of starvation or plague'."

"And it didn't work," Cam says, "hence the skeletons and remaining supplies..."

"Yeah."

"How far away from the hill did you appear?"

"A ways. I wandered around for a while before I found the lake, and then I went around the lake until I found the hill with a door in it."

"This is a weird place," Cam opines. "...Anything else for the house? Wallpaper? Parquet? Swimming pool? This is like the painfully generic 'I got a demon to make me a house but I had no opinions on anything' baseline design here."

"I don't know! I wasn't expecting to get a demon to make me a house! Wait, what do you mean 'swimming pool'?"

"If you like to go swimming but do not wish to do so in a lake for whatever reason some people have pools of water in or near their homes in which they swim."

"Huh," he says. "Okay. Well, what do you think I'm missing?"

"This wouldn't be my standard house design for all my uncreative summoners' demonic housing needs if I thought it had glaring flaws, it's just plain and uncustomized."

"It's not that I'm uncreative, it's that I've never designed a house before and all my house-related experience is from a totally different world," he says. "So I can think of things like 'needs more gorgeous stonework', but, like... okay, I can ask for a computer with a copy of every book ever published in Haelahar or Sanash on it, right, but I only even know I can do that because I saw you do it for the language from my books, so how many other things like that are there that I don't know are options because I haven't heard of them yet? That's what's tripping me up here."

"Do you want me to translate you some intro-to-demons?"

"Sure."

So Cam finds an intro-to-demons article and reads it aloud, translating manually for Tiro since he hasn't had his computer chewing on Tiro's languages yet.