"I guess you're trying to practice being more cautious? But along a different axis."

It came up in the context of prisoner treatment.

"Did you guys work something out for that?"

Not as much as I'd like.

"Huh."

He has reasons to be conservative but I'm not convinced he's trying as hard as I'd like to find ways to make fewer tradeoffs. Cam sits down on his bed and almost opens the cover of the book and then stops.

"Should I hold onto it?"

Please. Cam hands it over.

And he goes and delivers packages and comes back.

Wag wag. Is it going to be inconvenient for you to settle with the author if you need to?

"Hmm? Nah, you can make me candies to take over or something."

I don't know how far away it is. He extends a wing invitingly.

Ooooh. He comes over and sits down and snuggles.

Snuggle! Did you like the first installment of the thing I was reading enough to want to hear more of it?

"Yes, definitely!"

In the long run there's a case to be made that everybody should be consuming future media in an order at least informed by its publication date and prerequisites but a few things out of order doesn't seem like a big deal. Installment two appears.

"We can send out lots of different reading orders to people and do surveys on which goes over the best."

I suppose, but there's a lot of stuff to read, this would have most people waiting quite a long time to learn the best proven order.

"Well, then we should do it before most of them have learned to read!"

I guess that makes sense! Do you want to read first or shall I?

"Let's start with the sad depressing book about faeries and then we can read the happy optimistic one."

Nod nod.

So he reads from the faery book.

It's very meticulous, without being particularly dry, probably because it picked juicy subject matter. The first court chronicled had an irresponsible member who ran off while in a lot of debt; they tried and failed to track him down, and then tried harder once things started going disastrously south for them, and succeeded but too late to avert the fascinatingly vicious destruction of their whole court by the universe. The second one had a succession feud with enough characters that there are charts every page by about halfway through the accounting. Some of them survive, thanks to some fantastically ruthless management by the eventual winner of the feud.

" - enough for now?"

I believe that will hold me for a while, yes. Wow.

"See, better to get it over with first."