Cam makes sure the light is off. How is Auda doing?

"Okay. Someone came by and asked if we'd want hot water for a bath at any point. I said you could do that. She said of course you could and left. 

They're so nice but -

- if you hadn't been here I'd be tied up somewhere and I don't think that's even strange to them, really."

"They're certainly something. Do you want a bath like now?"

"- not especiallly. If you want."

"I'm not trying to tell you that you smell or anything, I just wondered since it came up."

"The other court mostly had me bathe before parties. They didn't have hot water, though, hot water sounds awfully neat." Shrug. "Maybe later."

"Hot water's great! Running water's also great. I wonder if fluid dynamics are weird at this size." He rummages in his science books for an answer to this question. "You ready for lunch?"

"Sure!"

Cam consults his meal plan for her and presents her with soup! It has vegetables and rice and a suitably aggressive complement of vitamins. It is in a different plastic bowl.

She eats her soup. 

His science book suggests that yes, fluid dynamics are super weird both when you are fast and when you are tiny. Being tiny during rainstorms is mildly dangerous though only if you're not looking overhead to see if a raindrop is slowly descending on you. Faeries can walk on water at all sizes apparently, but if they stop moving they start to sink in.

Huh! That would be fun to try if he could walk. Maybe he can be rolled on water but that doesn't sound as fun.

"- gonna summon a faery, have a question for one," he remarks by way of warning before he flicks on the door light.

A faery shows up. Not the red-haired one. "Can I help you?"

"I'm wondering how much I should worry about storage space for books! As you can see, this thing flickers," he holds up the computer, "and that's annoying, so I've been using it to look things up and then producing what I want to read in hard copy, but this could easily get really voluminous."

"Do you mind if we trade them off if we run out of space?"

"Some of them I'd rather not wander off. - metaph- no, I think that's actually also literally true, if they literally wandered off that'd be alarming - uh, and they're mostly not going to be in your language."

Nod. "I can ask how much space we have available, in that case."

"Cool, thanks!"

She gets back to him a little later with the news he can fill like six rooms this size with books before there'll be problems.

"All right, thanks!"

"You're welcome. Anything else?"

"That's all for now, thanks!"

Off she goes.

Cam starts trying to figure out with a minimum of paper conjuration whether running water can be made to work under these conditions.

It can! The pipes need to be quite big or the pressure through them quite intense but it's not impossible.

This will occupy him for a little while but he doesn't like trying to work out all the details on paper and the flicker is horrible and maybe if he tries to write to the dev team for chiplocked computers about it he will cause a time paradox. Ugh. He has lunch of his own on a lovely patterned china plate.