I already said that I could.

The papers shuffle themselves around until the relevant page is on top.

"Ah, so you did."

It's fine.  But it would be a lot better if I had more than a yard.

"How fast can you get?"

I can get from one corner to the other and be accelerating the whole time.  I don't have numbers.
(Underground corner to opposite air corner)

"Huh, it's sort of weird to me that you have to accelerate like a physical object would."

Jacket shrug.

Cam taps his fingers on the book, still open to the last page of ingredients, then pushes it away from him to reposition the notebook more conveniently. He goes over their conversation to date and extracts the facts to mark down in small neat handwriting.

The jacket goes and lies on the bed after a minute.  Floating, to get there, rather than climbing on.

"So besides maybe my computer, maybe a generator if I can borrow one, etcetera, anything I should bring next time I'm by?"

Hup.

I wouldn't mind a new book.  Ideally one that can mostly stay open on its own.

He'll go scan the bookshelf for a taste assessment.

Lots of things that seem likely to have been picked up secondhand, and are a fair few obvious library discards.  Some Baudelaire, some Dostoevsky, some Homer, some Hugo, some Orwell, some King, some Christie, some Lackey.  Sci-fi omnibus.  Poe Omnibus.  Doyle Omnibus.  The Kite's Attending 100th anniversary illustrated set, in far better condition than anything else on the shelves.  A collection of textbooks that overlaps by almost half with Cam's set for this year.  Medical history, history of plagues, of witches, of esoteric societies.

"Any particular section need filling out more than the others?"

I might be too distracted by real life death??  are we doing the dumb cutesy phrase swap outs do you think?—by events which are actually happening to me, to be able to really appreciate anything very deep tomorrow.

"I was anticipating picking a book I could just leave here with you indefinitely but if you want to read it tomorrow, sure, I can try for something lighter."

Oh, if you have some going spare I might like some more poetry and nonfiction especially!
(I guess even if phrase swapping seems like it should happen, you are a real life that I'm distracted by.)

"So I am. There's things I have multiple copies of for various reasons and I too like classic literature. Is the Shakespeare omission intentional or nah?"

No, I'd definitely take some.

"Cool. Distant relatives who haven't met me since I was six months old hear the classic lit thing and don't compare notes with each other."

Cute.  But inconvenient for you, I guess.

"Library's usually got me covered."

Must be That's nice.

Cam can't wait to go meet a bunch of strangers and get his eggs out of this prickly basket. "Books, computer if it'll hold a charge for the duration of the drive, maybe computer anyway so you can press keys at me."

Sounds pretty nice.  I know there must be obvious stuff I'm not thinking of, but

(tap-tap-tap-tap-tap)

I'm not thinking of it.