Nod. "Do you want to be kept up to date on our plans for the court that sent you?"

"Yes please."

"All right. Anything else I can do for you?"

"I'm not sure what the intended scope of the medicine idea is. There are some simple things that if the administering party can follow a basic dosing instruction are pretty safe to try and see what happens, like vitamin pills and rehydration stuff, but anything more sophisticated and you need at least a stab at the diagnosis."

"I haven't actually had a human before and don't know what sort of things often come up."

"I mostly just need to know if medicine with instructions like 'administer for pain and fever and not just randomly whenever under the weather, don't give more than X over Y period of time or Z over N period of time, discontinue if any of these four things' are too complicated."

"No, that'd be fine."

"Cool, I can get you some first line stuff of about that complexity. Is this for trading or for if I am not personally available to doctor here at some point in the future, medicines expire eventually like food does."

"I was assuming you might not indefinitely be around to doctor. How long do they take to expire?"

"It depends. Years, for most of the stuff I'd be giving you, it's probably not time to try to figure out vaccines for this population's pathogens."

"Okay. And is actively dangerous once it's too late, or just less likely to work?"

"I can stick to the latter without limiting the selection much."

"That sounds good."

"How much food do you want?"

"I can show you how much space we have to store it."

"That works. For complicated reasons I'm dubious about the history book, can I swap in an extra science book?"

"It seems less useful for the things you wanted us to learn but I'm sure it will be appreciated just as much, so sure."

"The complicated reasons are mostly orthogonal to your level of moral abominability."

"I see."

"How many musical instruments you want?"

"Let's do the food first and then see how close we are."

"Okay! Should I be assuming it has to be ready to eat or that stuff you have to boil or roast is fine?"

"We can cook things that require heat. We can't cook things that require anything more complicated than heat, if it needs to sit over a fire or be dropped in boiling water those don't work."

"You... have heat but not boiling water?"

"That's right. I know of the existence of boiling water from experiments my father did while he was slow."