"I don't know how long I've been here but I was seventeen when I arrived."

"Then it might be way longer than ten or fifteen years before you can't get pregnant at all. Maybe you can leave a cache of them somewhere and come get more occasionally?"

She nods.

"If you can feed her it's not at all obvious to me that she shouldn't just stay here? If this is a pressing concern, I mean."

"Do you have a preference?" Cam asks her.

She seems to find it kind of hard to speak with this many faeries around. 

"I want - 

- I want to be slow but with a way to support myself and I've only the one and I don't want to get pregnant and it wouldn't be so bad being fast if I didn't have to do anything but I think people will get very tired of that and I shouldn't overstay my welcome."

"- what way would you like to support yourself if you could have any such way?"

"If I were a man, you mean?"

"I may be underestimating the extent to which you can't expect to go set up with a spinning wheel turning wool into yarn on your own?"

"I don't know what that is. I could join a nunnery but I think they mostly don't take whores."

"I'm not clear on their membership policies. Has the spinning wheel not even -" Sigh. "Is there even anything in it for you besides the ability to use her as a language tutor, to keeping her around?" he asks the faeries.

"It's kind of a prestige thing, having a mortal?"

"Do you prefer being their prestige thing who they are now I think clear on not having sex with, and relying on me for food, and teaching this guy... German? Is this German?... in exchange for any bonus stuff you happen to want that what I make does not cover for you?"

"I guess? If I change my mind will you slow me down, later?"

"I do not personally have this expertise but I can make lots of food." He looks faeryward.

"I expect we can do that."

"And that you will?"

"I also expect we will do that if we can."

Cam looks at the human.

The human seems to clearly think that these decisions are supposed to be made by more important people. "I guess I'll stay."

"Cool. Please let me know if you need anything or if faeries do faery bullshit to you."

"I can set you up with adjoining rooms. If you don't prefer to stay out here, which I guess you might since you can't move."

"I can't move! It's exc- it's annoying! I can probably make myself a wheelchair but somebody's gonna have to plop me in it and wheel me around. It may make sense to track down my summoner and convince them in some way to assign me a task that includes moving around."

"I certainly intend to find the people who sent you here to me."

"That sounded really ominous!"