"Someday I will be big and know how to be smart talking to people and then I can go to other courts."

"Are you looking forward to that?"

"Yeah!"

"What are you gonna do when you can go visiting?"

"I dunno." He looks to his mom again. 

"Does your mom pay for all your drawing supplies and stuff?"

"Yeah. And toys and things."

"What kinda toys do you have?"

"I have little fast aminals. A bird and a cat and a snake and an ant and a worm. And I have a wagon they go on. And I have little people. And I have a little fairy court the people pretend to live in. It's pretending because they aren't real people so everything they do is pretending. And I have a ball that rolls, and blocks."

"Sounds pretty good. Do your parents tell you stories?"

"Yeah."

"What's your favorite one?"

"I don't remember."

"Is there one you like and do remember?"

"I like all of them."

"Wow, all of them?"

"ALL the stories."

When Econ Faery is up the next subjective... wake... time..., Cam finds him and says, "I got to meet a kid. Didn't seem too worrying to chat with him, but then my first guess about why faeries are how faeries are would not in fact have been 'child neglect' based on talking to adults either, so I don't know exactly how to count it."

"I'm curious what your first guess was."

"Uh, 'just kind of like that as a species inherently' followed by 'sensing debt alone does this, it's sensorily compelling in some way'."

"Some people report really disliking the feeling of running debt - in either direction - but that's not typical. More people report enjoying the physical sensation of debt running the right way but I think that's probably mostly downstream of the ways it's socially important and useful. Most people dislike the experience of someone else doing something that sharply increases debt - like lying to you or breaking your stuff or refusing a request or whatever - but again, that's hard to separate from the implications that has and the kinds of contexts in which you'd experience it."

"Something doesn't necessarily have to be conspicuous to be sensorily compelling in the way I mean. You can condition a human into stuff with very small stimuli."

"Huh! Then maybe that does affect us."

"I mean, I'd be surprised if it didn't, I just don't know how much to attribute to it. I'll be fascinated to see how the certificates work out though, being able to settle things quickly and impersonally without further negotiation seems like it could make everything sting less."

"I really really hope so."