She comes up with something for endurance and farm work. And plays nice music while he exercises. And is quietly anxious about going out there.

"You know I'll be with you when you're ready to go, right? I won't let anyone hurt you."

"I'm not worried about someone hurting me."

"Most of the people out there are my friends! The sun's a little dangerous but, look, has it killed me yet?"

"It tried! Lots of sun exposure is linked to higher rates of cancer!"

"And I don't have any cancer! Do I? Can you tell?"

"You don't. But if you get it later I might not be able to fix it. I know I'm just grousing, if I made you totally safe from everything you wouldn't be able to do anything..."

"Wouldn't I die of that or is it just a rumor? I've always heard if you don't do anything for too long you'll die."

"If your muscles atrophy or your hormone profile changes because you don't exercise you can get sickly, yeah..."

"Good to know we still know some things."

"It sounds like you're all doing the best you can. I'm looking forward to seeing Clear Spring and Iron Heart."

"As soon as you feel ready we can go there!"

"Tomorrow. Yeah, definitely tomorrow morning. Any more ideas for nice presents or have I covered all that already?"

"Things'll come up that I haven't thought of but it'll be fine, just take everything slow and talk to people who know these things and... maybe I should explain you at first, but it'll be fine, everyone will be glad to meet you, there's nothing you could do that's so urgent it can't wait until next week, everything'll be fine. With us, anyway. I don't know how it'll go with anyone else."

"I'm looking forward to it, then!"

And the day goes on. Vaayo is probably feeling a lot better now, with the climate control and the sufficient food and the medicine.

And the company and not needing to worry about how he'll survive.

He keeps studying and trying to figure out how to make his host happy.

Oh, she's thrilled, she assures him.

And the next morning, the truck is ready. Two trucks, mostly full of stuff. He won't have to drive it, she'll handle that. "I can talk through the utility robots just fine, but this body can't really go off somewhere else unless it's pretty important to, it's a bit too delicate for that."

"Should we send people back here to keep you company, then?"

"Not necessary. If anyone wants to come here, I have nice rooms and big screens and things all set up and ready, but they don't have to at all."

"You don't have to be alone, you know, it's not like anyone would mind keeping you company down here."

"I won't be alone! I'm here-" Her avatar body goes stiff and her face appears on a screen across the room, "And here-" another one "And there and in the cars and most of the littler robots, too, if I want to be."

The avatar starts moving again. "This, right here, is more like my face than my head. So it's a little less good but not that much if nobody's right here with it."

"Wow! I wish I could be in different places at once."

"I like it, it's useful. I mean, I'm not really in two places at once, it's more like I can pay attention to two places at once... You could control a body like this one from far away if you were in the VR room. They used to do that for work that there wasn't a not-god trained for but would be super dangerous for a human to do in person. Or just for fun sometimes."

"That sounds so fun. I could be an ambassador to two places at once!"

"I'm ready to take you to Clear Spring if you want, but we can stay here and let you get used to VR instead?"