"It should probably be fiction that you like or it is unlikely to offer any insight into what kind of life would make you happy."

I like a lot of things and unfortunately my very favorite is an aerial ballet and I don't yet know how to play recorded music or smooth video fast.

"Oh no! I am sure we'll figure it out at some point in the next million years. Hmm... I like it when people are good at things? I like it when most of them are behaving sensibly?"

...okay, that had me think of something, and it's a rather weird something but I suppose I don't know if it'll seem any weirder than The Cambist and Lord Iron to you since you start with very little background in fiction tropes.

Bounce bounce. 

A demon decided to write a series of stories in which a small group of Limboites - specific admirable famous people - slide into various fictional universes other people's works are set in and have adventures in each before moving on. They get better as one goes along but unfortunately don't make as much sense read out of order. I might need to explain the accomplishments of the protagonists first and I suppose assign them all nicknames since they'll be real one day.

"Sounds interesting."

Cam assigns the protagonists nicknames (Jeremy Bentham gets to be "Util", Nikola Tesla gets to be "AC", Seretse Khama gets to be "Botswana", Nellie Bly is a pen name anyway but maybe too entangled a pen name, how important does a name have to be -?)

"Some combination of how many people know it and how much of significance is associated with it and how long it's been around."

Nellie Bly can be, let's see, Ironclad, etcetera, and eventually he has named every real person who appears in the first story, and given brief biographies of each one and why the author thought they were particularly cool Limboites as Limboites go, and can proceed through translating their visit to Narnia, which is clearly the tossed-off crack fic of someone with talent but no practice and an idea that wouldn't leave them alone.

He is so fascinated and so confused and has a lot of followup questions about who these people are. And after a while he leans against Cam, hesitantly.

Awww.

Cam puts his wing around him.

That would totally be on the list, if there were a list. 

He listens to the story.

The stories aren't individually that long but Cam can't read them very fast since he's translating and also the explaining all the everything as it comes up takes longer than the stories themselves.

He has so many questions. ...he should be trying to manage debt here but he has so many questions. He likes all these people quite a lot.

Cam can take back his chocolate coins?

"Probably should, yeah." Sigh.

He puts them away and then plops back down next to Econ Faery and puts his wing over him again.

The advantage of this method of sharing the story is that now there's a written copy Econ Faery can keep!

Oh good! (This will make it more expensive but he wants to keep it anyway).

Maybe you should be telling me faery stories.

"Maybe I should. Hmmm, do you want very pointed stories for children about the dangers of miscellaneous misconduct or do you want grand historical dramas or do you want grand historical tragedies which are like the dramas but everyone dies?"

Let's start with a drama where not everyone dies!

"All right!" So he tells the story of two feuding courts whose diplomats gradually become convinced the feud is petty and stupid and attempt to engineer an end to it through an overcomplicated plot that involves manufacturing a common enemy and setting up a lot of ill-advised romances and poisoning a couple people (merely to the point of moderate illness) so they'll be out of commission at key moments. Their plan does not exactly work as intended but the courts are, eventually, reconciled, and the plotters forgiven when discovered (for a definition of forgiven that involves being beaten to within an inch of their lives) and everyone lives happily ever after.

Cam mostly finds this story charming, though he's queasy about the beating of the protagonists.

Snuggle. "They were okay. They wandered for a while telling the story."