He attempts to say 'ha', can't, and settles for wagging furiously while he cages it and writes up care instructions and the expected subjective lifespan of the butterfly.

"Oh, that'll be wildly popular!"

Demons can't make things with minds, so the animals won't behave normally if they're normally any smarter than approximately a bug or snail. But it's still an improvement!

He watches the butterfly, fascinated. "It's amazing."

Do you want one? Is it expensive?

"Very. I want other things more anyway. But it's very neat."

Cam makes the book and the metal knife. It's eventually going to get really hard to keep up with billions of people's orders, even if it's only for things they can't possibly do themselves with any amount of economic bootstrapping.

"Yeah. We can do some amount of consolidation but at some point the logistics problem is too much."

I guess that's at least straightforwardly handled with more (metaphorical? depending on what they are ordering?) bread lines and then people can buy each other's places in line, or whatever.

"Yeah. And maybe eventually with more infrastructure, we're working on that."

Yeah, if there were a setup to have someone vet all the orders and organize them so I could just do a whole warehouse full at once, that'd be more efficient than me reading them all and making sure there are appropriate containers and butterfly care instructions and such.

"I could probably do that. And train some other people, too, for once it gets to be too much."

I bet! Are people picking up the stuff here, or is someone delivering?

"Most courts are sending one representative to pick everything up, but we already had one example of a court that was paying another for delivery!"

How entrepreneurial!!

Bounce bounce bounce!

Do you need to run this somewhere or is this a good time for more reading?

"I should drop it off but can come right back."

Wag. Your brother recommended me a book.

"Oh?"

Cam had not conjured it before but does so now.

"Oh, that one! It's interesting but if you read it too much you just get paranoid."

Maybe it will best be read in small chunks between other things.

"That sounds good! It's a good book, just makes you start jumping at everything."

I suppose that could be why he recommended it.