Huh! That would be fun to try if he could walk. Maybe he can be rolled on water but that doesn't sound as fun.

"- gonna summon a faery, have a question for one," he remarks by way of warning before he flicks on the door light.

A faery shows up. Not the red-haired one. "Can I help you?"

"I'm wondering how much I should worry about storage space for books! As you can see, this thing flickers," he holds up the computer, "and that's annoying, so I've been using it to look things up and then producing what I want to read in hard copy, but this could easily get really voluminous."

"Do you mind if we trade them off if we run out of space?"

"Some of them I'd rather not wander off. - metaph- no, I think that's actually also literally true, if they literally wandered off that'd be alarming - uh, and they're mostly not going to be in your language."

Nod. "I can ask how much space we have available, in that case."

"Cool, thanks!"

She gets back to him a little later with the news he can fill like six rooms this size with books before there'll be problems.

"All right, thanks!"

"You're welcome. Anything else?"

"That's all for now, thanks!"

Off she goes.

Cam starts trying to figure out with a minimum of paper conjuration whether running water can be made to work under these conditions.

It can! The pipes need to be quite big or the pressure through them quite intense but it's not impossible.

This will occupy him for a little while but he doesn't like trying to work out all the details on paper and the flicker is horrible and maybe if he tries to write to the dev team for chiplocked computers about it he will cause a time paradox. Ugh. He has lunch of his own on a lovely patterned china plate.

Auda spends most of her time sitting in bed staring at the wall but doesn't seem discontent about this exactly.

He does eventually ask, "Are you bored?"

"Hmm?"

"Would you prefer to have something to do? I don't know what if anything you do for fun but if I were sitting around not doing anything I'd be bored."

"I used to sew things? One of the fairies tried to have me copy written things but I wasn't very good at it."

"Do you like sewing? Do you want, like, embroidery stuff or anything?"

"It probably won't be very good but it'd be nice to try."

Cam does not know a ton about embroidery but he can guess at some nice even threadcount muslin and a lot of embroidery floss colors and a thimble and - "I do not seem able to do needles or scissors, possibly because they are sharp, lemme trade a faery for those, I bet they have them." Light.

Same fairy! They do in fact have those.

Cam offers the nice china plate in exchange and presents Auda with the needles and scissors.