"Sure. They really are kind of obsolete though." She's just glad he's happy and safe and learning.

Stirling engines! The different kinds of car engines that usually get used. Giant ship engines are actually easier to make than precise little car engines!

"By the way, I have dinner and a hot shower or bath and a nice bed ready for whenever you get too tired."

"What's a shower?"

"It's like a bath but always more water above you falling down. Like hot rain. It's supposed to feel good and help you get cleaner."

"That sounds like fun! ...How long do you have enough water for me to try it for? And do you have soap, too?"

"I have soap. And the water goes into tanks and gets cleaned up and used again so, forever!"

"Wow, okay. I'd love to try that. ...Do you have cameras in the room with the showers?"

"Nope. I know about privacy. I do have cameras in the bedroom but they're off unless I specifically turn them on and I won't do that unless I think you might be hurt and need help or something."

"It'd be fine if you were watching the bedroom."

"Okay. Food now I think. A robot's bringing it. Artificial bread and butter and fruit paste and some water. And then shower after this documentary ends?"

"Sure. You've been really hospitable to me, thank you, please know you'd be welcome in Clear Spring if you ever came to see us there."

"I can send a body over to say hi! Once I make more things. It just takes a while."

"Please let me know if there's any way I can help you with anything while I'm here or after I leave."

"You already helped by telling me what kinds of things people need. If I find something else I'll definitely let you know."

"Good."

He waits for the robot with the food.

Robot brings food. "I need to fix up this body now but I can still talk to you through the screens if you need anything. I'll give you directions to your room whenever you're ready."

And L1N's avatar walks away.

"Okay! I hope you feel better when you're fixed!"

Food! He eats all of it and then asks for directions to the room he'll be staying in.

She speaks the directions though the sound system. Down that hall, into the metal box it's going to close and take you up so you don't need to climb stairs, down the other hall, through this weird door called a 'hatch' and the architecture changes here down another hall, and here's his bedroom. It's pretty fancy! Everything is shiny. The bed is luxuriously soft. The shower is in the back. She explains the shower's controls as best she can.

Wow! It's so pretty! It's so nice! It's so fancy! it's so comfortable!

He's even sort of not entirely alone! He's been so lonely out here, it's a relief just knowing there's someone in earshot.

...He really, really likes showers.

(If his shower lasts more than half an hour L1N will loudly ask if he's alright.)

It doesn't. It might've if he was more willing to impose on her hospitality.

Such a nice soft bed!

There are fresh, clean clothes as similar to what he's wearing as L1N could make (but with nice synthetic fabric) and a plate of fruit paste waiting for him on the bedside table when he wakes up.

He washes his face and hands in the bathroom sink before he touches any of it.

Then he eats and dresses as fast as he can and goes looking for her.

The hallways are confusing! And that android isn't there to greet him. But a speaker says, "Good morning!"

"Good morning! I can't figure out where you'd like me to be..."

"I don't need you to be anywhere in particular. You can go where you want in most of the ship. You could go back to that lounge, or I have a place for exercising, or the place where I'm making things if you promise not to touch anything or - most other places just ask."