He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
Cam writes to this effect. "Mrindeh says she'd be happy to. Also she's adopted the local name Maria Williams."
"She has an orphanage, not a baby. Probably she's picking them all up to see which one metaphorically speaks to her or something."
"I have a preliminary house design, but can I give you, like, a tape measure, to make sure the dimensions for the whole thing will accommodate you okay?"
"You know, it's not that I didn't know it would take a lot of house to comfortably fit Lucy, but my goodness that is a lot of house."
"Only most of it is designed to fit her, I didn't make everybody else's bedrooms accommodate her. But I did make a lot of bedrooms based on our current rate of accumulating people."
"I was raised from the dead by an interdimensional formerly-human demon and then flirted with by Benjamin Franklin."
"No, no, it's fine. Nothing pushy. And I like imagining the looks on my old neighbors' faces if they ever found out."
Cam giggles. And leads the way into the house. Which is air conditioned.
"Feel free to solicit decor, I left it pretty sparse to start out with."