"No. That works - sorta - for things whose merit is artistic but not for things whose merit is informational."

I'm sorry.

"I hate it. It's so - stupid and pointless and it's there for everything and it was better when the only alternative was to be a miserable short-lived starving human but there is something better and I can't ever have it and I hate it."

Sigh.

Cam is still sort of holding his wrist. He puts it down.

There's a knock on the door. 

"Yep," he says loudly and unhappily to the door. "Won't happen again, I'll explain later."

It's slightly challenging to sigh with duct tape over one's mouth but Cam gives it a try.

He hesitates a second then gives him a hug. "Don't - it takes kids a while to learn it and they get better feedback."

Cam nods. His wing unfolds under Econ Faery's arm to settle on his back.

Lean. "Glad you're here."

Snort.

Lean. Sigh. "...I wonder if you're affected by the non-physical parts of misfortune. We could roll some dice and check."

Cam produces a set of dice of assorted numbers of facets and tumbles them to the floor and makes an inquiring noise.

"Uh, the usual way is for us to play a game against each other, we both roll, we bet on the outcome, whoever rolls higher wins. If you don't get nonphysical misfortune either you'll win by a margin that would be really unlikely otherwise after twenty rolls. If you do I should win."

Cam revises his reply a couple times before he's sure of it. I am not confident I can accurately remember the rules to any dice games without looking things up.

"I mean, usually what I described is the whole game. We roll a dice each and bet on whose roll will be higher. There are dice games that are more fun than that but this one's the quickest for testing."

Cam duplicates the twenty-sided die in a different color and hands Econ Faery one.

Then they can roll dice!

Cam does not win conspicuously.

"So you're probably not immune to all misfortune."

And I didn't lose really badly either so it's probably not converting whatever happened to you into more luck stuff for me, right?

"Yeah. My best guess would be that you are just immune to physical effects and affected normally by other effects."

That's not that surprising but I wish I'd found out in some more controlled way. I'm really sorry.

"You're really sweet."