"Let me know what you think of the book."

...If I say I will am I then bindingly promised to do that? Because I might forget.

"With no timeframe specified this couldn't cause you any trouble but if you want to avoid things like that on principle you might say 'I'll try' or 'I'll write myself a reminder' or 'I probably will'. - I really appreciate you being cautious there."

It's what the tape is for, much of what I'm showing you is a second draft.

"Thank you."

You're welcome.

"I've asked some courts that'd've had humans if they have any records of what their humans had trouble with. Nothing yet but I'll let you know."

I'd be mildly surprised if it was common to keep track.

"If you're planning to get humans again you'd want to warn them about anything that gave the last ones trouble but a lot of people seem to think of it as deliberate stupidity rather than a genuine difficulty and accordingly not to think about how it could've been avoided."

That's really very unobservant, thinking the humans are just being willfully stupid. It's known that humans do not in general have debt among themselves! Do slowed down faeries ever hang out with humans?

"Widely known, yes. Slowed down faeries mostly don't hang out with humans because they might learn their names and then be entangled."

Right, I should have thought of that.

"My father is frequently tempted! He wants to know if he got their language right."

Maybe eventually Auda can be coaxed into helping him with that, or he'll settle for future German.

"I think he might get along with Auda. He's very disarmingly obsessed with the way people speak and absolutely nothing else."

I can suggest it to her.

"Sounds good."

Cam swishes his tail. I'm not in the habit of counting questions, and have little idea how to rate how much the answers were wanted, do I owe you anything -?

"No, we're even."

Cool.

- but now I have another question, which is, if I fix my flickery screen and start doing this same sort of thing with my computer, do I need to have an opaque backing so people don't read my first drafts from the far side while I'm working on them, or does that not count as an intentional attempt at communication, or might it start to if I accidentally thought about it the wrong way?

"You'd want a backing. If you put it where they can see it and they read it that'd count."

Okay. Do I owe you a meringue now?

"A meringue would be delicious."

Meringue! How about this one is rosewater flavored, that seems like the sort of thing faeries would like.