"They'd just take them off. At the feast. I think it's probably better if I don't seem - new. But thank you."

"You're welcome."

She closes her eyes. The cage trundles on. Eventually she falls asleep. And some time after that slumps over to sleep in his lap. 

...he can't make a pillow between them and can't place one manually with his hands tied so he will just sit there, he guesses.

When she wakes up she's briefly disoriented and then apologetically gets out of his way. "Do you not sleep?"

"I can, but I don't have to, and this isn't very comfortable for it."

Nod. 

"I can make you a pillow next time but I couldn't put one under your head once you flopped over, sorry."

"I didn't mean to inconvenience you. I don't usually share a sleeping space with anyone unless they want - anything."

"I'm fine," he assures her.

"You're very nice but I don't want to take advantage."

"Making stuff doesn't cost me anything and it's mildly more interesting than watching leaf litter go by underfoot."

"I guess I'd like something to eat, then."

"Any requests?"

"Not really. I'm supposed to eat as much fruit as I can, so I live longer?"

"That sounds like the sort of thing faeries would conclude about human nutrition if they didn't start knowing enough about it to keep people from dying of scurvy." But here is a pear.

"They were better than other courts at keeping humans alive. They bragged about it a lot. - I don't really know what that means about other courts."

"Well, I suppose it could mean they're even worse at it and their humans succumb to marasmus first, or it could mean other courts kill them on purpose, who knows."

Nod.

When she's finished her pear he gives her some highly fortified cheesy bread.

It's delicious.

And in this way they may pass the time till they get to their destination.

It's a couple more days. They actually get handed off to one group of faeries which gets instructed to deliver them as a gift to a second group of faeries. The cage gets swapped for another cage. They get worried about Cam not drinking anything and soak his gag with water a few times. They collect the suspicious materialized items.

And then finally they are delivered into another faery court. The blanket is taken off. This court is inside a hollowed fallen tree, but otherwise rather similar. 

The new faeries graciously accept these presents from the old faeries in repayment of the debt between their courts. 

Someone opens the cage, pulls Auda out, takes a look at the chains, decides not to pull Cam out too. 

The table is covered in food. There's music playing. 

Cam makes a stereo.

It appears, but isn't playing, possibly because it's tiny, possibly because they're accelerated.

He makes headphones, not quite touching his head but with a sproingy enough headband that they snap onto his ears once they appear.

This is noticed and causes some consternation. 

Someone tries to say something to him.