"As many kinds as I can get! Maybe like twenty of each?"

"If you'll let me know where I can find you later tonight I'll have some cherry pits for you."

"Ooh! I appreciate it. My trucks will still be outside the gate probably."

("Sure!" she says.)

"Does that mean we're staying here overnight?" Vaayo asks.

"I was planning on it, yeah. I can ferry you somewhere else just fine if you want that."

"I'll be fine staying here! I'll probably walk home tomorrow, though, I miss people."

"I'll be making trips between the spaceport and Iron Heart before too long. I'll miss you when you decide to go! And you'll know where to find me! But it'll all be alright, you're safely home and I'm here helping people!"

"You should send us one of your bodies eventually, we need all the same things as Iron Heart and we have a lot more plants to offer you."

"Iron Heart has the most people, is why I came here first."

Two robots carrying a large, flat glassy screen trundle into view. "Here we are!"

The people watching the kids suggest a place for it inside and remind the children about good behavior for watching demonstrations. Hold your questions till the end, don't heckle, don't touch, if you're not interested go play behind the people who are watching not in front of them...

And she puts on cartoons for them!

Most of the kids are confused but a lot of them are interested. The adults are, too, some of the material's new enough to them to be interesting.

They'll let this go on for a while if she has enough material.

She tries to pick things that don't require modern context. She has all the material, but restricting herself so heavily, maybe a couple hours of really good understandable kid-friendly stuff?

How are her other tablet handouts doing? People looking up interesting useful things on them?

A handful of people are absolutely enthralled with them! Someone wants to know about ancient smelting techniques and someone wants to know about ancient dyes and someone wants to hear ancient music and someone wants to hear ancient adventure stories and someone wants to know if dragons are real and someone wants to know how many gods there were.

Ancient smelting worked like this! They had so many fancy alloys! Aluminum and steel and titanium and molybdenum and boron and lithium and and and!!!

Ancient dyes were like this! You can make them all without having to set up huge industrial equipment with a machine called a chemical synthesizer! The huge industrial equipment is cheaper for bulk production though.

There's lots of ancient music! She's fond of Bach, but there's also like, The Beatles, and the 2050s neo-funk group Chrominate!

Ancient adventure stories are in plentiful supply, well-produced epic movies with huge special effects budgets and great fight choreography and fanciful stories.

(Dragons, unfortunately, were not real. She doesn't consider herself an authority on gods but here are some books by people who did consider themselves authorities on gods.)

The smelting person wants to watch videos of all these processes and will be at that for a while if not interrupted.

Dyes person wants to know if they can have any of these any time soon.

Music person now wants to hear lots of Chrominate and Beatles songs but is only lukewarm about Bach. Also they'd like some explanations. What's a ticket to ride, what's a submarine, which eye color is kaleidoscope...

Movies person wants something they don't have to look at, they want a story for while they work.

Someone overhears her answer to the dragons person and leans over to insist that he saw a rock with the imprint of a skeleton in it that was definitely a dragon. A baby dragon. 

Gods person would like to know why these writers couldn't just count the gods they met! And ask them what they wanted and why they created humanity!

Someone else stops a robot to ask which careers she's planning to make obsolete and what skills will be most useful if she can reintroduce all the ancient technology.

She has some dyes! She can give a little dye as a gift but would like (surprisingly little) money for more than that.

She tries to explain all the cultural references. A ticket to ride is proof you paid to be taken some place or go somewhere, a submarine is a boat that goes underwater, a kaleidoscope is lots of colors in little fragments...

She has audiobooks too! She picks a medieval fantasy involving a runaway princess, an orphan untrained magic person, and at least three dragons. They like dragons here apparently.

Can she see the rock? Did it look like this dinosaur skeleton? Because dinosaurs: Are a thing, here's a T-rex, but they aren't dragons.

Nobody had met a god for at least several hundred years before she went to sleep. There are so many arguments and disagreements and no credible accounts of real people actually talking to real gods that are definitely not just stories. One of the popular answers was 'one'. Another was 'millions'.

Uh, manual labor is probably going to disappear? And... Candle making? If they even do that? Probably some others? She doesn't have a list. It probably won't be super fast and she can give gifts to people who she makes obsolete while try figure out something new if she needs to. Learning to use and navigate computers and tell them what to do will be pretty useful if she manages to reintroduce all the ancient technology.

Well of course she can get paid for her work! Every crafter should get paid for their work! A gift is generous and unnecessary and very kind of her. And has she considered that she could charge a little more than that? (The price dyes person suggests is still low, but higher.)

Wow, nobody here knows much about boats, there are rivers in the known world but not really convenient to the mine, but they know enough for a boat that goes underwater on purpose to be surprising.

It looked a little like that skeleton. If she keeps guessing she'll eventually find out it was a small raptor. Now the dragon fandom wants to know if dinosaurs breathed fire and flew! And what they sounded like!

Wait, so human civilization didn't collapse for centuries after the gods left? But if they don't take gods to understand them why are artifacts so dangerous?

Turns out concerned person is a candlemaker. But if she'll teach him to use computers he won't be mad, progress is nice. ...He can't confirm that he won't be mad if she just replaces him without helping him retrain.

She's not exactly a crafter. And she's vaguely worried about crashing the dyes market because she can make hundreds of gallons of this incredibly vivid, durable, nontoxic stuff in a variety of forms (paste, wax, liquid, paint, powder, pellets, etc) a day if she really wanted to? That price works.

Some dinosaurs flew or almost-flew! None of them breathed fire, probably. Here's some guesses at what they might have sounded like based on people looking at their bones and comparing them to, like, lizards and birds that exist now.

She's pretty sure human civilization collapsed because of a big war but she doesn't have the full picture on that. Artifacts are still dangerous if you don't understand them, you just don't need to be a god to understand them.

She'll totally teach him how to use computers! And program, too, if he takes to it.

If she's worried about driving other people out of business or disrupting markets the thing she needs to avoid under any circumstances is dramatically undercutting other people's prices! And if she doesn't interrupt she will get a lecture about valuing herself and her work and why that's important to her and everyone around her.

The dragons fandom is now also the dinosaurs fandom. They want to know more about flying dinosaurs! Both of them need to get back to work but they can do that while talking to Lin, they just need to find something to prop the tablet up against and figure out which of them has to borrow the other's workspace.

Gods person is... assimilating information. And possibly going to be upset later when they're done processing.

The candlemaker would like to get started on that, there's no better way that jumping right in to see what his prospects are in this other field.

She actually enjoys the lecture! It's good perspective! It's just that the amount of work she does on things is different than how much a human would have worked on the same things!

She knows all about dinosaurs and is curious about their work and if maybe she knows things that would help them.

Gods person is left alone. Tablet's screen goes off to conserve power.

This is how to change apps! This is how to change the settings on the device! This is the concept of a computer network! This is how to save a document! This is how to use the search engine! And so on.

...Well, if she insists. There's only so much anyone's willing to do to convince her not to offer them high-quality goods for cheap.

The one who saw the fossil raptor is sewing a shoe sole to the upper. The holes are all punched and it's just a question of pulling the needle through. It's simple but harder than it looks. The other is making the wooden handle for a bare blade a local smith made recently. It needs to be smooth and easy to hold and the right size and shape for this knife.

Candlemaker is optimistic, all of that makes sense. Now he wants to know what kind of computer jobs Lin might need help with.

She goes ahead and offers high-quality goods for cheap.

The cobbler would maybe be interested in a sewing machine it works like this. The woodcarver might be interested in power tools?

Explaining computers to people. Helping people fix weird errors or problems on their computer and fixing the hardware maybe if it's broken. Or at least diagnosing what can be fixed and what needs to be sent to L1N. Designing web sites and how the different apps should work to be useful and easy and understandable and writing specifications for them. Administrating networks and permissions and policies and stuff. Learning programming and actually making things work, she's actually not that good at programming and is using lots of things that already existed. Ordering teams of robots around. Writing things for people to read on their computers, explanations or news or whatever?

The cobbler is confused about sewing machines. That's... not how you sew? Is that how the ancients sewed? Why does it do it like that?

The carver is tentatively interested in power tools. For a value of "tentatively" that includes holding themself back from demanding power tools now right now. Ahem. They would maybe like some if they come with a guide to safe use, including anything that would have seemed too obvious to mention to the ancients but isn't obvious now.

The candlemaker is both optimistic and interested but doesn't anticipate being able to do any of that for at the very least several more months, will she keep offering lessons free during that time? And maybe not start selling very cheap artifact candles just yet?

It's so much faster, mostly! Just look at that jacket get sewn, visible progress in less than a minute. There are totally automatic ones that are even faster.

The carver should proooobably go to her place near the city to properly learn about power tools? She had limited space in the trucks and didn't bring any meant for humans to use. Here's a workshop safety video, though.

She'll totally offer free lessons for months but isn't sure about not doing any lighting in that time. Maybe he can make nice pleasant scented candles and sell those, she'll give him stuff for that, the ancients bought those sometimes.