"- huh. I'm not - generally miserable or anything. It'd be nice if people could listen, but," he shrugs. 

"If you were a human - uh, if you were a human in what I construe as the modern era - you could play to crowds of thousands and then a few billion people could download the recording! I'm assuming you've improved since you were yea high, I apparently am good enough at violin to count and I don't command audiences like that, but like, at a guess."

"That would be pretty amazing."

"But anyway, here I am, fountain of unlimited value and you the apparently most convenient value sink." Wag.

"Happy to help. They all seem very frustrated."

"I am too! Serenade me and let's see how unfrustrated we can get."

So he sings something.

It's pretty! Cam jots down occasional notes on motifs he likes.

He sings until he's a little past the debt. It takes a while even though he's very good at singing. 

"I assume it'd be super counterproductive if I turned right around and showed you any music I know."

"Well, it'd mean I'd have to show you some more."

"I suppose that's true! And I did bring my violin. - I haven't had to turn pages for so long, what have I got memorized..." This Beethoven sonata!

He's fascinated.

"Do you have musical notation?" Cam asks when the sonata concludes.

"I take notes for myself so I can remember complicated things. If you play that one once more I'd have it, though, I think - it's beautiful -"

"Wow, that's really fast memorization - uh, do you want to compare the cost of one more playthrough with the cost of the sheet music, and then decide if you wanna invest in learning to read the sheet music since I can produce lots in the same format?"

"I'm not worried about the cost, I'll pay you back assuming you'll sit for it. And possibly if you won't, I'm not sure what terms you're on with my brother there - I want to learn sheet music."

"I'm happy to listen to lots of music but since you can apparently pay back other people's debts I'm worried it would add up and there's only so much time!" He sheet-musics the sonata. "There's the one I just played."

"How does this work -"

So Cam explains the clef and time signature and note letter names and note values and sharps and flats and all the Italian.

He's so happy!!

Awww.

And then he can show Cam what he can do on the instruments he's invented, which are less good than a violin although he's very inventive with them.

That's really cool! "Have you been working all alone or can you get close enough to even if you meet another musician...?"

"I've worked with a couple other people from time to time. When I can get even or when they owe us something anyway. Or if we want them in debt and they're cooperating with that but that's rarer."