"Well, a similarly slow wheelchair doesn't sound that useful either."

"It sort of depends on how it plays out! I will have to try more things. I suppose I should switch this off in case it's just blasting demonic music into the woods." He turns it off.

"Would you like us to lift you into it?"

"Yes please."

So they do that. And then while the design of the interior of this hollow log is not actually ADA-compliant they can steer him to a little door where there are two bedrooms and a room with a bathtub. "And you two can have a little bit of a break, since this must've been a lot."

"Yes, thank you."

He closes the door.

"You want any stuff for your room? Something to eat?"

"Oh. I, uh, yeah, I should eat. Since we didn't have the feast."

"We did not!" He offers her a sandwich with many vitamins snuck into the bread - he is not yet clear on the dishes situation here - and some berries on the nearest surface that will do given the unknown dish situation.

Smile. "I didn't - I wasn't expecting you to get into a fight with them. I'm glad it worked out."

"- would you have preferred I just let it slide?"

"No, no, I'm really glad you did it! I - 

I guess I just put all my thought into how to get through it better than last time and then it was really surprising when suddenly instead -

- but I am very grateful."

"Cool, I wouldn't have wanted to be like, taking untoward risks on your behalf if you were actually hoping to play it really conservatively or something. You wanna get some sleep in a real bed? It's been a long day."

" - yeah. Thank you. Sleep well."

"Not unless you think you can pick me up, I haven't the hang of sleeping in chairs, but it's all right, I usually don't at all."

"Oh, of course, I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking." She attempts this. She isn't actually physically strong enough to pull it off.

"It's okay. I'll drink coffee and experiment with electronics and stuff."

"All right. Of course wake me if you need anything."

"Mm-hm!"

Once she has had her food and gone to bed Cam tries his computer.

It works. If he's very patient. See, it is a thousand times slower than him.

...well. Lots of useful operations take only a fraction of a second. He might wind up wanting to put several of them up on his wall so he can conduct searches in parallel but nailing things to the wall is at the moment beyond him given his binding, so for the time being he'll do with one.

Ugh, there's screen flicker at this speed. Probably he will mostly use it to search for things to then make in hard copy.

Still. He looks up his notes on refeeding and comes up with a meal plan for Auda and sticks a coffee thermos in his cupholder to sip from.

At some point someone knocks on the door and slides a note halfway under it.

...Cam makes one of those extensible grabby stick things and grabs the note.

It's a note! He can't read it.