He goes through the supplies, making sure everything is in place.

"What do you have in mind for, like, which tents are for which things?

Oh, uh, do you want any help with tent setup before I move on to doing this?"

(...he hopes the extra tents weren't too expensive. Maybe the Novel Illness Team is comping her for them.)

"Well, right now I'm turning the first tent into a dedicated bedroom tent, and setting up a separate bath and bathroom tent, and a living room tent. I don't think I'd need any more than that, and there isn't even more tent for you to help me set up at this point."

Oh, oops, she's done already.

He nods, trying not to feel too awkward.

It's faster with a pre-made trike wheel. He's done before sunset.

It looks sort of like this:

He tries drafting some test fibres--

--hmm, needs some more lubricant, and a slight adjustment here...

...and it works!

Iris looks at Minaiyu spinning with intense curiosity. "About how good is the fiber, and how fast do you make it? Would you say?"

"Honestly, it's hard to give a good answer to that. It varies so much by skill level, plus I would need time to get used to the quirks of this wheel and the quirks of these fibres.

I've done some weaving with yarn from Teludi--that's my friend who made the tricycle spinning wheel--and hers is fantastic quality. I'm definitely not at her level, though I do enough spinning to be moderately competent at it."

"I feel like spinning by hand would get boring quick? So I doubt I'd do it enough to get very good. Seeing the wheel set up makes me so incredibly grateful for how much fabric industrial technology lets me, and everyone else, have."

"It can be soothing in the right frame of mind, for some people more than others.

But yeah, you really don't want to have to rely on this sort of thing for all of your fabric. We learn this as a stepping stone, and a sort of...proof of concept? If you demonstrably know things about improved cloth-making techniques, people are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt when you ask for help building a cloth factory. And if you're in a situation where you're struggling to get help building a cloth factory, well, at least you have a spinning wheel now and that's better than nothing."

"Right, that makes total sense... I manage to always forget the reincarnation in new worlds thing. Are there any clothes you're wanting to get? Or are you happy with everything and just spin because it's soothing?"

"I could start over on the robe I was working on back home, but...it was going to be a gift, and I can't give it to them now."

his friends and family will never know what happened to him, and that's so much worse than knowing for certain that he's gone to another world and they'll never see him again

"I think it will take some time for me to settle on what major craft project to do next. Maybe I'll do some small bits of yarnwork just for fun: I've been starting to miss that."

He looks contemplative for a bit, then smiles.

"I could make a little hat for Rellakri. Probably it wouldn't keep the hat on very long. It would be cute, though."

"Oh my god, a cute hat for the bird, that's so fantastic! Having one of those coming from your own hands would be so impossibly cute!"