"I just make it? Were you not watching?" He gestures at Talon's Capri Sangue.

"There's a lot more, uh, dimensional pocket nonsense than -" he wrinkles his forehead. 

"Huh. Well, not me, that's brand new over there," he shrugs.

" - wow."

It's in the name, guys! That's what 'apsel' means! It is in no way any of your faults that you don't know that! "Where to?" he prompts.

"Uh, downstairs." The elevator accepts a voice code, a thumbprint and a password. 

Downstairs is even more elaborate. High ceilings, nice artwork, well-tended live plants. 

Swanky. What, did this use to be a hotel? Is there a 'make my digs classy' spell? "If you don't spend your entire budget they take it away, huh?" Cam remarks, tapping a fern frond as he passes it.

"Some species really care. Dunno which ones, it isn't vampires. The ones it's important to impress, I guess. Maybe yours."

"I mean, it's nice but I wasn't going to complain if you'd gone with something more Art Deco."

"Can I get you anything to - I guess I probably can't get you anything to drink."

"You could get me a mug, and then I wouldn't have to DIY all the dishes and let them pile up," suggests Cam. That would probably create a hilarious inventory accounting headache.

He does that. There's a little kitchenette. The dishes are piling up in the sink a bit. 

"People whose job involves more diplomacy are on their way. Sorry for the wait. They don't live here."

"That's okay. I'm not going to expire of boredom." Or anything. He takes the mug and fills it with mocha. Mmmmm. He makes very good mocha. "You got any book recommendations?"

"- not really. Sorry."

Would you please ask -

- oh. Right. Sorry. 

"What sort of information do you need to make a book, does it have to actually exist?"

"It does have to exist. I mean, it doesn't have to be a book, I could bookify some other existing material, but I don't - reach into Platonic bookspace and grab something new, no."

"But you can't need to be thinking of all the words in it or it wouldn't be very useful -"

"Thank you for your assessment of my brainpower! But no, you're right, I just need to refer to it. Usually title and author'll do. No cute search terms like seventh book ever to be edited by a widowed redhead."

"Can you translate things?"

"No but I can do format conversion."

"If it did exist but doesn't anymore, like the Library of Alexandria -"

"Yeah, do you have room for one of those? A lot of the interest is in the nature of the physical storage." Also, like, fucking floppy disks and their computers are not gonna be up to modern Unicode standard so even electronic format they could use would be hefty.

" - uh, I don't know. Probably not in here, there's all kinds of screening for what gets in here. You know, it'll turn out there was a magic book in the Library of Alexandria and then we'll have a horde of time-travelling collector demons after us for it, that kind of stuff."

Har har, time traveler demons. "That does sound worth being careful about. If the book itself is magic as opposed to containing information about magic I can't get it but I suppose the time traveler demons might think it would be in with the rest anyway if you didn't have very good lines of communication."