"Would've. Nobody we visited had one."

"'s a good thing. Even if it means I have to get over myself and find a fairy or two I'll hang out with."

"It'd probably make sense in the long run. Should I be vetting them for you? What would make somefaery an acceptable companion?"

" Even if I make a mistake and end up in their debt they'll just buy it off you when you get back. - and, I guess, we should have a language in common."

"Are there a bunch of faery languages? I could talk to all the ones I met."

"Oh. I don't know, I haven't talked to ones outside my court. And the one who wanted to do money experiments."

"I'd be surprised if there weren't at least dialects but it's at least not one court per language."

Nod. "I'm mostly worried about the other thing."

"I would expect either of money experiment faery or his redheaded brother Not A Stupid Asshole to be capable of buying any debt you wound up in off me without being horrible about it given adequate explanation of how not to be horrible."

"Okay. Then I guess I'd like to be introduced, if it's convenient."

"Now?"

"Not especially? Whenever. I just don't want to be getting in your way."

"You're not? I've been off doing other stuff and ignoring you for nearly two weeks, it's fine. I'll go see which one I turn up first unless there's anything more pressing you need -?"

"No, all good."

So off Cam strolls to see which of the two he turns up first.

That'd be him. "How was your trip?"

"It was entertaining! Faeries go nuts over sushi! I think the human got lonely, though, and since I am likely to make more excursions it seems expedient for there to be any faeries she can talk to ever. Her stated criteria are that they have to speak this language - or, I suppose, the local German - and that if she winds up in debt to them over the course of the talking to them they just sell that debt to me, no funny business."

"Well, that's practically everybody, any idea who she might get along with most?"

"The people I was confident would be able to grasp the no funny business clause were you and Econ Faery but I haven't met that many of you so I'm prepared to believe there are lots!"

"The line you are drawing is pretty arbitrary to us but it's not really incomprehensible now that you have explained it and there haven't been ten more equally shocking things and people do have the concept of a polite conversation which is not supposed to turn into anything else. I'd be delighted to meet her but I am happy to meet more specific criteria if there are any."

"She might materialize higher standards over time but this is currently what I'm working with."

"Okay. I'd be happy to meet her whenever's convenient."

"I think now's convenient on her end."

"All right."

Stroll stroll. "Hey Auda, I located Not A Stupid Asshole for you."