"I don't have the electronics problem solved to the point where I can give you movies, but if you wanna learn to read I can give you books. Machine translation into eleventh century German will not be great but it might do. And I think a lot of people learn stuff pretty well by encountering stories about it. Maybe their inability to do fiction has to do with faery problems."

"Huh. You think I could learn to read?"

"Virtually everyone can learn to read unless they have a rare and specific reading-related problem."

"It's really rare for people to learn to read."

"That's because it's not very useful in this era. If you have lots of reading material around, and teach kids, they can almost always pick it up by age seven. Later in some really complicated languages without alphabets, but German's got an alphabet."

"Huh. Okay. That'd be really neat."

"I don't know if anything's been written that you already wish you could read? In German or in faery - it'll take longer to get machine translation working for faery but I can do it."

"I don't think I have ever seen a book aside from the Bible. I guess maybe I should read that. Even if it's wrong."

"Let's see..." He suffers through some screen flicker. "The gospel of Matthew was translated into Old High German like three hundred years ago. I don't know if that's close enough to your dialect. In about four hundred years a fully vernacular German Bible will be printed! That might also not be close enough - it's close enough that I can mostly read it with German I picked up in 2094 and I couldn't understand much of what you said when you tried talking to me in your native language..."

"Huh. You can't make versions of books but in a language you don't speak?"

"Oh, I don't have to speak it, but it does have to exist. Or be, uh, going to exist in the next thousand realtime years. The magic can't translate from one language to another. This can," he waves his computer, "though it'll take hours - real hours - and the quality will depend on how much I can help it, and how much has been previously written in the language. German starting after the printing press is invented has plenty written in the language, and I can help it out with faery; German as of right now has less of both traits."

"That makes sense. I guess I could learn to read in faery. Since I'm starting from nothing in both of them."

"All right! Conveniently it seems to be written very phonetically - that means the letters correspond very exactly to the sounds, instead of having a ton of weird exceptions. ...This should possibly wait till you've had the rest of your sleep though? I can get the computer going on translating some simple stories in the meanwhile."

"Oh. Sure. Thank you."

"You're welcome!"

She goes to sleep.

Cam gets his computer working on chewing through the corpus of faery books and helps it along.

Then when she wakes up she will probably have some reading material in faery!

Yup! And he will teach her the alphabet over breakfast.

This does nothing to persuade her that he is not actually an embodiment of perfect goodness or something.

She is actually a reasonably fast learner. 

Then she can try reading Little Red Riding Hood! Cam has carefully prefaced it with "Machine-Assisted Translation of L. Perrule's Little Red Riding Hood, A Work Of Fiction".

She will slowly get to work on that.

He helps her out as necessary, tail awag.

And eventually faeries leave a note with an update on the assault on the other court. They have taken everyone prisoner. It was uneventful. They're bringing a couple back here, including the summoner. The apsel and the mortal have no entanglements at the other camp; he told some people his name but they very responsibly immediately did a lot of drugs and forgot it.

They're welcome to inquire about anything else they might want to know.

"The human would prefer not to encounter the faeries from that court; I thought perhaps they could be on opposed sleep schedules and not assigned to anything in this part of the court."