"We have a long time to think." Sigh.

"A million years! It's very exciting. I've never had a million years of plans before."

"And after that things can get really exciting!"

"I look forward to it."

"Me too." Sigh. "...gotta keep my summoner alive, I have no clue what happens if I get dismissed."

"That's important, have you told my brother?"

"...I don't remember."

"I should perhaps go do that, then."

"Thanks."

He heads off.

Cam starts recklessly fiddling with all the display settings on his computer to see if he can make it flicker less or differently or something.

He comes back a while later. "You mentioned the thing about how to keep you here to him. He's planning to take everyone alive, and thinks he's determined who, particularly, summoned you."

"Oh good. I probably said it would send me home but obviously now I have some reason to be concerned that if dismissed I'd just cease to exist."

"He's very good at what he does. We'll get them in safely."

"I am glad to hear it."

"Can I arrange you that extra concert now?"

"Go for it."

Concert!

A highly enjoyable one, too!

"- hey, uh, when Beethoven is born - he wrote that sonata I played - are you going to suddenly be in his debt -"

"When you share something it ceases to belong to you unless you explicitly negotiated some kind of different agreement, which is very rare. So I should be fine."

"- define 'share' and 'explicitly negotiate', I don't actually know what agreements Beetho- I should not have said his name, whoops - I do not know under what agreements Mr. Ode To Joy published his works and I definitely didn't, like, subscribe to whatever magazine the story I read your brother was published in -"

"I mean, if you and he had sat down and agreed that you'd share the song as his agent and the debt for it would flow to him, then that's what would happen. Assuming humans can even make agreements like that among themselves, which I'm not quite sure of. As it is the debt went to you, so it definitely didn't go anywhere else."

"I wasn't aware there was a conservation of debt mechanic, okay. What about things that people did not choose to share and have been musically pirated like I described before?"

"If you played it it's yours. If you showed me the sheet music I'm not really sure. If someone took my father's books and showed them to people they'd all end up in my father's debts, because that counts as hearing it directly from him."

"I made copies of your father's books to read on somebody's recommendation, am I in debt to him now?"